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Some Concerns About Nel Noddings' Caring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sarah Lucia Hoagland
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Abstract

Nel Noddings argues that hers is not an ethics of agape. I want to argue, on the contrary, that it is, and that this is a problem. My central thesis is that the unidirectional nature of the analysis of one-caring reinforces oppressive institutions.

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Review Symposium
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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 109 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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