Bennett, Philip (Pip) Seton; (2024) Caring educators: a philosophical contribution. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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As it nears its half century, the ethics of care continues to break new ground in moral philosophy. The case is made that care ethics is desirably categorised as a moral theory, placing it alongside the regnant theories in the Western philosophical tradition: virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and consequentialism. The nature of moral theories is explored with both feminist and anti-theoretic criticisms examined. This foregrounds explication of Nel Noddings’ ethics of care for which features are identified that are non-detrimentally part of the wider moral theoretic landscape. In so doing, refinements are posited and receive elaboration in four areas of the theory. These are: the ground and nature of caring obligations; that moral perception, motivation, and deliberation are better motivated by sympathy rather than empathy; that at least some of the needs the one-caring ought to properly consider are a function of the identity of the one-caring; and that care admits of degrees rather than being a binary, thus resisting Noddings’ completion requirement. Noddings’ philosophy of education is predicated on her ethic of care thus allowing the proposal of a caring philosophy of education based on the refinements heretofore claimed. This novel philosophy of education is explored in conjunction with details from a piece of English literature.

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