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Rethinking Care Theory: The Practice of Caring and the Obligation to Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Daniel Engster
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Abstract

Care theorists have made significant gains over the past twenty-five years in establishing caring as a viable moral and political concept. Nonetheless, the concept of caring remains underdeveloped as a basis for a moral and political philosophy, and there is no fully developed account of our moral obligation to care. This article advances thinking about caring by developing a definition of caring and a theory of obligation to care sufficient to ground a general moral and political philosophy.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , Summer 2005 , pp. 50 - 74
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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