Caring about Others

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ID23656965
AuthorsBennett W Helm (0009-0003-1433-2823, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages75-94
Publication date2010-01-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLove, friendship, and the self (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567898.003.0003
OpenAlexW2477287048
ISBN9780199567898
LanguageEN
References cited48

This chapter extends the account of caring in general to include a distinctive kind of caring, which is called caring about an agent as such. This has required first coming to understand what it is to care about something for its own sake in terms of its being the focus of the relevant pattern of felt evaluations and evaluative judgments. The chapter examines what it is to care about something as being of a certain kind in terms of an at least implicit understanding of that kind informing and so structuring the rational pattern of felt evaluations and evaluative judgments constitutive of one's caring. It argues that caring about something as an agent requires that the pattern of felt evaluations and evaluative judgments constitutive of one's caring be structured in such a way that one comes to share not only her cares but also thereby her felt evaluations and desires. This means that in caring about an agent as such one ought normally to undertake engaged activity with her as an expression of one's caring.

Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Focus (optics) · Political science · Structuring · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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