PhilosophersCarol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan
Alongside abstract justice, there is a morality of care and relationships.
1936 United StatesNew York
Life
American psychologist and philosopher (born 1936), professor at Harvard and then New York University. In In a Different Voice (1982) she criticizes the stages of moral development of her colleague Kohlberg, centered on justice and abstract rules, and describes another moral orientation grounded in relationships, attention and responsibility: the ethics of care.
Main works
1982
In a Different Voice
There is a moral orientation of care and relationships alongside that of justice.
1992
Meeting at the Crossroads
A study of adolescent girls' moral voices (with Lyn Mikel Brown).
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceWhat makes an action good?Basis of morality
Duty (deontology)Consequences (consequentialism)Character (virtue ethics)Other (divine law, relationships, value creation…)
Morality is also, and for many people first, a matter of care and responsibility in relationships, not only of abstract justice.
Gilligan, In a Different Voice (1982)