Ethics of care

“On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web.”

Fisher, Bernice, and Joan C. Tronto. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Care.” In Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives, edited by Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson. State University of New York Press, 1990.
 

“Caring requires that one start form the standpoint of the one needing care or attention. It requires that we meet the other morally, adopt that person’s, or group’s, perspective and look at the world in their terms.”
Tronto, Joan C. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge, 1993, p. 19.

Joan Tronto further points out four ethical elements of care: attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness.
 

Joan Tronto reflecting on her latest work on care (2014)

Architectural theorist Kim Trogal reflecting on ethics of care (2013)

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