An ethical theory centered around this concept was inspired by psychologist Carol Gilligan’s critique of Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept, which orients ethics around personal relations instead of abstract principles in a theory developed by Virginia Held and Nel Noddings.
ANSWER: care [or word forms like caring; accept ethics of care or accept care ethics]
[10m] Noddings’ advancement of ethics of care comes alongside attacks of deontological and consequentialist ethical systems, following the division of ethical systems made in this virtue ethicist’s “Modern Moral Philosophy.”
ANSWER: G. E. M. Anscombe [or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe]
[10e] Anscombe’s virtue ethics builds on principles introduced in this most famous Aristotelian ethical work, in which Aristotle suggests virtue is the mean between extremes.
ANSWER: Nicomachean Ethics
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