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The Ethic of Care vis-â-vis the Ethic of Rights: A Problem for Contemporary Moral Theory

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Joy Kroeger-Mappes
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Abstract

Carol Gilligan has delineated two ethics, the ethic of rights and the ethic of care. In this article I argue that the two ethics are part of one overall system, the ethic of care functioning as a necessary base for the ethic of rights. 1 also argue that the system is seriously flawed. Because women are held accountable to both ethics and because the two ethics frequently conflict, women recurrently find themselves in a moral double bind.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 108 - 131
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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