Gilligan and Kohlberg: Implications for Moral Theory

Blum, Lawrence

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“…We labeled this as an affective/relational approach to responsibility, because it referred to close relationships built on emotions such as love, care, and trust. Interestingly, this difference resembles a classical distinction introduced by moral psychologists in the 1960s and 1970s to explain moral development (Kohlberg et al, 1983;Gilligan, 1987;Blum, 1993;Nunner-Winkler and Nikele, 2001). This debate has also influenced many discourse-based and feministoriented ethical approaches (Benhabib and Cornell, 1987;Held, 2006).…”

Section: Shared Assumptions On Gr In the Literature Corpusmentioning

confidence: 64%

The Concept of “Genetic Responsibility” and Its Meanings: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Medical Sociology Literature

Leefmann

Schaper²,

Schicktanz³

2017

Front. Sociol.

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The acquisition of genetic information (GI) confronts both the affected individuals and healthcare providers with difficult, ambivalent decisions. Genetic responsibility (GR) has become a key concept in both ethical and socioempirical literature addressing how and by whom decision-making with respect to the morality of GI is approached. However, despite its prominence, the precise meaning of the concept of GR remains vague. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature review on the usage of the concept of GR in qualitative, socioempirical studies, to identify the main interpretations and to provide conceptual clarification. The review identified 75 studies with primarily an Anglo-American setting. The studies focused on several agents: the individual, the family, the parent, the healthcare professional, and the institution and refer to the concept of GR on the basis of either a rational/principle-oriented approach or an affective/relational approach. A subtype of the rational/principle-oriented approach is the reactive approach. The review shows how the concept of GR is useful for analyzing and theorizing about socioempirical findings within qualitative socioempirical studies and also reveals conceptual deficits in terms of insufficient theoretical accuracy and heterogeneity, and in the rarity of reflection on cultural variance. The vagueness and multiplicity of meanings for GR in socioempirical studies can be avoided by more normative-theoretical explication of the underlying premises. This would provide a higher degree of differentiation of empirical findings. Thereby, the complex findings associated with the individual and social implications of genetic testing in empirical studies can be better addressed from a theoretical point of view and can subsequently have a stronger impact on normative and policy debates.

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Section: Shared Assumptions On Gr In the Literature Corpusmentioning

confidence: 64%

The Concept of “Genetic Responsibility” and Its Meanings: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Medical Sociology Literature

Leefmann

Schaper²,

Schicktanz³

2017

Front. Sociol.

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“…Gilligan asks us not only to think of people in relation to each other, but to think about how complex sets of relations situate and shape people (Gilligan 1982;Gilligan and Wiggins 1987; cf. Blum 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

Lupita's Dress: Care in Time

Danby¹

2004

Hypatia

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Carol Gilligan's temporally embedded caring subjects reason in terms of relationships with and forward-looking responsibilities to others, and consider how their decisions will shape future ties. Subsequent work in philosophy and economics has had difficulty deweloping these aspects because of an underlying social ontology that excludes them. This paper draws on a heterodox tradition, post-Keynesianism, to develop a n alternative social ontology and an analysis of material life that takes time fully into account.The notion of care expands from the paralyzing injunction not to hurt others to an injunction to act responsively toward self and others and to sustain connection. A consciousness of the dynamics of human relationships then becomes central to moral understanding, joining the heart and eye in an ethic that ties the activity of thought to the activity of care. -Carol GilliganCarol Gilligan's pioneering research in 1982 found many women approaching

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“…While there has been debate in the literature about these two stances, recent work by numerous authors shows that the orientations of care and justice are complementary. Some of the best descriptions of the ethic of care are found in the work of Joan Tronto, 17 Nel Noddings, 18 Lawrence Blum 19 and Owen Flanagan. 20…”

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Ethic of Care: Guiding Principles for Engineering Teaching & Practice

Pantazidou¹,

Nair²

1999

J of Engineering Edu

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A BSTRACTEngineering draws guidance from many disciplines for its teaching and practice. The evolution of engineering as a response to societal and personal needs has created, together with technical challenges, ethical dimensions akin to more service-oriented professions. Several frameworks of ethics have been suggested to incorporate and address these dimensions. In this paper, the ethic of care is singled out due to the natural analogy between engineering and care: they both respond to a need and are oriented towards action. The suitability of care to provide guiding principles is supported by highlighting the distinguishing features that make the ethic of care especially relevant to engineering. Finally, it is shown through examples that the benefits from applying principles of the ethic of care vary from helpful reminders to valuable insights and guidelines in teaching and practicing engineering.

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Gilligan and Kohlberg: Implications for Moral Theory

Cited by 165 publications

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The Concept of “Genetic Responsibility” and Its Meanings: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Medical Sociology Literature

The Concept of “Genetic Responsibility” and Its Meanings: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Medical Sociology Literature

Lupita's Dress: Care in Time

Ethic of Care: Guiding Principles for Engineering Teaching & Practice

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