The Ethics of Care and Empathy

by Michael Slote

Book Overview

Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion allows care ethics to develop its own sentimentalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041577201X
• ISBN13: 9780415772013
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"