Some Concerns About Nel Noddings' Caring

1 January 1990

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia

Vol. 5 (1) , 109-114
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1990.tb00394.x

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.

Keywords

NEL NODDINGS
UNIDIRECTIONAL NATURE
OPPRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS
NODDINGS ARGUES
CARING REINFORCES
REINFORCES OPPRESSIVE
CENTRAL THESIS

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Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Hypatia, 1987