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Reconciling an "Ethic of Care" with an "Ethic of Justice": the Potential Grounds for Habermas's Theory of Discourse Ethics

Sandra Jae Song

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Sandra Jae Song

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This paper examines the potential grounds for discourses ethics in reconciling an "ethic of care" with and "ethic of justice". In situating the justice/care debate within a discourse-ethical entreprise, selected works of Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib are examined. From their different arguments concerning moral universalism, the principle of universalization (U) is considered to be problematic for a feminist "ethic of care". The principle of "justice" focuses on questions of equality and inequality and prescribes impartiality and the generalizability of interests to resolve moral dilemnas, while the principle of "care" focuses on question of attachment and detachment and prescribes a more context-sensitive moral point of view to resolve moral dilemnas. In the case of Benhabib's critique of the strict separation between morality and ethical life in Habermas's version of discourse ethics, it is questionalbe whether it can really apply. Upon closer examination of Habermas's treatment of the relationship between morality (Moralität) and ethical life (Sittlichkeit), feminist concerns are (or can be) addressed in discourse ethics. This does not discount the worth of Benhabib's work, since Habermas's "skeletal" treatment of morality and ethical life gives just cause for feminists to express their reservations. Therefore, in not discounting the merits of either "justice" or "care", the paper attempts to reconcile both ethics by fleshing out their normative merits for a cogent theory of morality found in a theory of discourse ethics.

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Lien social en mutation

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Lien social en mutation

Hôte : Université de Trois-Rivières

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