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Do Confucians Really Care? A Defense of the Distinctiveness of Care Ethics: A Reply to Chenyang Li

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

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Abstract

Chenyang Li argues, in an article originally published in Hypatia, that the ethics of care and Confucian ethics constitute similar approaches to ethics. The present paper takes issue with this claim. It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics as a kind of virtue ethics, rather than as a kind of care ethics. In the process of criticizing Li's claim, the distinctiveness of care ethics is defended, against attempts to assimilate it to virtue ethics.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 77 - 106
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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