Care

Ethical framework stressing the importance of relationships, context, and individual needs, and committed to maintaining and nurturing sustaining social connections.

• attentiveness
• responsibility
• responsiveness

Attending to the affective, embodied, and contextual dimensions of moral life. Rooted in the details of specific, actually-existing relationships and responsibilities, and standing against the methodological individualism of the autonomous, self-sovereign actor.

Focuses on the question of ‘how to respond?’ Resists hard and fast, fixed principles. Demands tinkering and adjustment.

• [?] How do technological interventions affect the dynamics of care relationships?
• [&] Compare with: virtue ethics?

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