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The Unhappy Marriage of Care Ethics and Virtue Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Maureen Sander-Staudt
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Abstract

The proposal that care ethic(s) (CE) be subsumed under the framework of virtue ethic(s) (VE) is both promising and problematic for feminists. Although some attempts to construe care as a virtue are more commendable than others, they cannot duplicate a freestanding feminist CE. Sander-Staudt recommends a model of theoretical collaboration between VE and CE that retains their comprehensiveness, allows CE to enhance VE as well as be enhanced by it, and leaves CE open to other collaborations.

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Hypatia , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Fall 2006 , pp. 21 - 39
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Copyright © 2006 by Hypatia, Inc.

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