This index defines the local vocabulary used in philosophy/concepts/care-ethics. The terms here name the conceptual apparatus that care ethics uses to articulate moral life as grounded in relationships of dependency, attentiveness, and response. Each entry is brief enough to consult while working on related material.
These terms are local on purpose. Care ethics shares vocabulary with feminist theory, disability justice, and political philosophy, but the definitions here reflect the specific usage within this module — how these words function in the care ethics tradition rather than in broader social theory. When a term overlaps with another module, the local page documents the care-ethical sense and links outward.