Carol Gilligan rūpesčio etika
Carol Gilligan‘s Ethics of Care

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the ethics of care which gains bigger visibility in the contemporary moral philosophy but still barely known in Lithuania is presented through the analysis of Carol Gilligan‘s various works. C. Gilligan is an American psychologist who is working in the field of women‘s psychology and girls’ development. Her role as the founder of the ethics of care is widely acknowledged, however her followers and critics are focused mainly on the psychological facet of her theory and bypassing ethical dimension of her work. An empirical research about the differences between male and female moral vocabularies and correlation between moral reasoning and gender are escalated mostly. This article analyses the overlapping between ethical and philosophical facets of her theory and seeks to demonstrate that Gilligan is a founder of new ethical paradigm because she bases normative concept of care on the notion of relational subject which is quite new in the traditional moral philosophy. Such moral subject is formed and constituted by the relationships with particular others.

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