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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822184703321

Autore

Noddings Nel

Titolo

Starting at home : caring and social policy / / Nel Noddings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-92756-7

1-59734-918-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Disciplina

171/.8

Soggetti

Altruism

Caring

Home - Social aspects

Moral education

Social policy - Moral and ethical aspects

United States Social policy Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Starting at Home; Part One CARE THEORY; Part Two OUR SELVES AND OTHER SELVES; Part Three TOWARD A CARING SOCIETY; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic of care can have profound and compelling implications for social and political thought.