Schools of Care Ethics

Care ethics does not form a single unified doctrine but a family of related positions that share a commitment to grounding ethics in relationships of care. The schools represented here correspond to the major thinkers who shaped the tradition, each contributing a distinct emphasis.

Entries

• Gilligan — the different voice: moral development as relational reasoning
• Noddings — the phenomenology of the caring relation
• Tronto — care as political concept and practice
• Held — care ethics as distinct moral framework