What Is the Ethics of Care

question 67

Multiple Choice

What is the ethics of care?

• A) A normative theory that models morality on caring interpersonal relationships, such as the relationship between a parent and a child.
• B) A variation on contractarianism in which the social contract is an agreement not between completely independent persons but between family units.
• C) A normative theory on which there are no abstract principles of morality, but each person should simply act on feelings of empathy.
• D) A feminist version of deontology in which obligations are specified in ways that do not disadvantage women.

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Definitions:

Reflexes

Automatic, involuntary responses to specific stimuli.

Goal-Directed Behavior

Actions or series of actions that an individual initiates and maintains to achieve a specific objective.

Conservation

The principle that certain properties remain the same despite changes in the form of objects, or understanding the permanence of quantity despite changes in the shape or container.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic in which an individual has difficulty seeing the world from perspectives other than their own, often observed in early childhood development.