ETİK İLE POLİTİKANIN KESİŞİMİNDE “İHTİMAM”
“CARE” AT THE INTERSECTION OF ETHICS AND POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: After its emergence in the 1980’s, care ethics has been subjected to many criticisms and has been constantly revised in the light of these criticisms. In this paper I will basically focus on two of these criticisms: the criticism that care ethics, to the extent that it erodes the concept of autonomy, paves the way for the exploitation of the subjects involved, and the criticism of parochialism. I will then specify the ways to respond to these criticisms in a satisfactory manner: understanding autonomy not as a property of an individual but as relational and contextual, integrating justice and care based approaches, and understanding care not as an emotion, but as a practice. Understanding care in such a way would enable us to grasp it also as a political concept which can be extended to the public sphere, rather than just an ethical concept limited only to the private sphere.

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