Annette Baier – The Need for More than Justice
February 26, 2010
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Tags: need for more than justice
Quote: “Women perceive and construe social reality differently from men, and that these differences center around experiences of attachment and separation”
What I Expect to learn: I expect to learn what ethics of care is and why justice alone, is not enough.
Review:
As a saying in a quote, “Behind every man’s success, is a woman”, and women has been deprived of rights from the past and is perceived to be powerless up to now. According to Baier, justice alone is not enough, because first, it has a cold approach, wherein it doesn’t consider emotions and relationships with other people. Women are also not part of the justice, wherein they perceive justice as being rational. Rational as being using the mind or intellectual rather than the emotions, since the women are weak and emotional, they are not considered being part of the justice. Women are deprived of many things before, such as voting and having an education, women are expected to be at home and take care of the family. There will be justice if both man and woman are equal, but what happens when man overpower woman, cannot be justified easily. The view of Baier here as well as Giligan is both feminist, since they are women and they fully understand their rights and what is deprived of them. Baier states that the best moral theory has to be cooperative product of men and women to harmonize with justice and care. Women are far stronger than the man, since they can handle responsibilities and can easily understand what other feels. Men are rational, whereas women are emotional and understand empathy, from their they can learn from each other and balance their rights and justice can be equally treated. I believe that what that justice alone is not enough, because whenever you weigh whether it is right or wrong you must put emotions and feelings into consideration.
What I learned:
- Ethics of Care
- Implications of insufficiency of justice
- How justice is applied to women
Integrative Questions:
- What is ethics of care?
- How are women treated on the past?
- Why it is said that justice alone is not sufficient?
- How do rationalist view women?
- How are the rights of women from before and now practiced?
Entry Filed under: Contemporary Moral Problems
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