Doing the "right" thing

Ethics and Care

Good morning friends,

This week we’ll be doing a brief survey of ethics. We’ll consider the questions, “what is the right thing to do,” and “how do I live a good life” tackling them with the help of wisdom traditions from all over the world and throughout history.

Today, we revisit an idea we discussed a few months ago—the Ethics of Care. Make sure to leave a comment below with your thoughts!

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Daily Reflection

Our ability to communicate our own feelings, and to pick up the feelings of others and thus to heal fractures in connection, threatens the structures of hierarchy. Feelings of empathy and tender compassion for another’s suffering or humanity make it difficult to maintain or justify inequality.

—Carol Gilligan

The ethics of care invites us not to see the world a zero-sum justice situation, but instead a fluid web of relationship.

Carol Gilligan who consolidated the care ethic says that there are three levels of development within the care ethic.

At the fi…