Relation, Virtue, and Relational Virtue: Three Concepts of Caring

This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue e...

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Published in:Hypatia 2007-07, Vol.22 (3), p.92-110
Main Author: LUO, SHIRONG
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aristotelean ethics
Care ethics
Confucian ethics
Confucianism
Courage
Empathy
Ethics
Feminist ethics
Morality
Relational ethics
Senses
Virtue
Virtue ethics
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Summary:This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue ethics, and to make the connections between the ethics of care and Confucian ethics philosophically clearer and more defensible.
ISSN:0887-5367
1527-2001
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01092.x