Ethics and Values / Unit 6 Ethics 275 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gilligan's Different Voice
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The idea
Gilligan's claim: beside the justice voice of rights and rules runs a care voice of relationship and responsibility — different, not lesser.
In practice
Scoring moral development by rule-reasoning, Gilligan heard subjects reasoning in relationships — and argued the scoring, not the subjects, fell short.
Where people slip
Gilligan later recast the care voice as human, not distinctively feminine; the classification is discussed, not settled.
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