“The ethics of care can certainly participate in processes aiming to reshape, repair, heal, anticipate, understand, denounce and provide an opportunity for expressing injustices of many kinds”, says Dominique Hétu, while providing insight in how this is done in Canada. Continue reading Care Ethics in Canada
precarity
Rethinking critical reflection on care
Is the ethics of care approach, critical as it is with regard to Modernity, aware of late Modernity, with its paradoxes of Modernity, e.g.: “thou shalt be autonomous”? Care ethicists Frans Vosman and Alistair Niemijer recently published an article inMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy, on this issue. It is time for a next step in care ethics. This article outlines this next step. Continue reading Rethinking critical reflection on care
US elections and its backdrop: precarity and fear
The recent United States Presidential Election have drastically increased the sense of precarity for many individuals resulting in protest and unrest.
Part I of a series of care ethical comments on the US elections. Continue reading US elections and its backdrop: precarity and fear