The ethics of care and empathy /

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Author / Creator:Slote, Michael, 1941-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description:xiv, 133 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6614731
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ISBN:9780415772006 (hardback)
0415772001 (hardback)
9780415772013 (pbk.)
041577201X (pbk.)
9780203945735 (e-book)
0203945735 (e-book)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Caring Based in Empathy
  • 1. The Ethics of Care
  • 2. The Nature of Empathy
  • 3. Empathy and the Morality of Abortion
  • Chapter 2. Our Obligations to Help Others
  • 1. Immediacy and Distance
  • 2. The Limits of Empathy and Obligation
  • Chapter 3. Deontology
  • 1. Empathy and Harming
  • 2. Property, Promising, and Truthfulness
  • Chapter 4. Autonomy and Empathy
  • 1. Respect
  • 2. Autonomy
  • Chapter 5. Care Ethics vs. Liberalism
  • 1. Defining the Issues
  • 2. Arguments against Liberalism
  • Chapter 6. Social Justice
  • 1. The Empathy in Justice
  • 2. Distributive Justice
  • Chapter 7. Caring and Rationality
  • 1. is Morality Necessarily Rational?
  • 2. Views of Practical Rationality
  • 3. Rational Self-Concern and Instrumental Rationality
  • 4. Caring vs. Self-Concern
  • Conclusion