TOK ethics 5 - ethics of care

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Today

Ethics of care

CAS 

Ethics of Care/ feminist ethics 

• Emphasis on connection to others.
• Responsibility and care.
• Empathy, relatedness and responsiveness valued rather than reason law and justice. 
• Rejection of impartiality as a moral requirement.
• Emotions and intuition.
• Ethics in our daily lives rather than in abstract bubble. 

00:57

For the women Gilligan interviewed it was not realistic to think about ethical dilemma's in a purely abstract, rational way because of...

1. their religion.
2. their connection to others.
3. their personal desires.
4. their trampolines.

01:54

Gilligan's male students who were recruited as soldiers to fight in the Vietnam war...

1. used Utilitarianism to decide if they would go and fight.
2. used consequentialism to decide if they would go and fight.
3. used both utilitarianism and consequentialism.
4. didn't want to talk about it.

03:09

Why was Gilligan's book called "in a different voice" and not "in a woman's voice"?

1. Because she didn't like women.
2. Because the women were not in her research.
3. Because she is a feminist.
4. The "different voice" represents both men and women.

04:24

Ethics of care does not focus on absolute principles of right and wrong but pays attention to personal circumstances.

1. True
2. False

05:39

What do you think, would most women today take their own needs into consideration as well as the needs of others?

1. Yes
2. No, women still learn to place the needs of others before their own.
3. No, a lot of people don't know their own needs.
4. They would think of themselves more than about others.

Do you have questions about Gilligan's video?

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Caring means you

1. pay attention to someone's basic needs.
2. sustain someones basic capabilities.
3. try to alleviate pain or suffering.
4. all of these.

Human beings are individuals, separate from others. 

Masculine values

Human beings are connected. 

Feminine Values

Ethics of Care/Feminist ethics. 

Reason, law and justice. 

Old ethical paradims. 

Empathy, relatedness, responsiveness. 

Feminist ethics is only for women.

1. True
2. False

Emotion and intuition play no role in ethics of care.

1. True
2. False

Ethics of care means you only care about the people close to you, the ones you know.

1. True.
2. False.

Feminist ethics/ethics of care means you care about people, not about nature.

1. True.
2. False.

What is your favourite stream in ethics?

1. Utilitarianism
2. Deontology
3. Virtue Ethics
4. Ethics of Care

Which questions do you still have?

CAS 

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