House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies by Henry Jacoby; William Irwin

Author:Henry Jacoby; William Irwin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780470316603
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Hannah: I’m not leaving her because I don’t—

Cameron: I’m not talking about the leaving, I’m talking about this. If you care for her at all, you won’t let her do this blind.

Hannah: You’d really tell?

Cameron: Yeah.

Hannah: You’d die?

Hannah’s question—would Cameron sacrifice her own life to ensure that she met her caring responsibilities?—points to an important philosophical criticism of the ethics of care.

Does Cameron Care Too Much?

The ethics of care is appreciated by most feminists as an important contribution to ethical theory because it both recognizes and validates women’s experiences in an area of philosophy that has, for the most part, excluded women. That said, the ethics of care is not without its critics. Many feminists are concerned, and rightly so, that valorizing a moral theory based on a stereotypically female trait—caring—above other types of moral reasoning can lead women to think they should care about others at all times in all contexts, even if this caring incurs a personal cost.4

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