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The Ethics of Care

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The ethics of care: moral life centers on relationships—attentiveness, responsiveness, and responsibility to particular others—rather than impartial rules.

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A parent tending a sick child follows no universal formula—and is not failing ethics.

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Born of feminist critique of impartialist theories—partiality here is a defended feature, not a confessed bias.