more on this theme | more from this thinker
Full Idea
The moral problem arises from conflicting responsibilities rather than competing rights, and its resolution needs contextual and narrative thinking. This morality as care centers around the understanding of responsibility and relationships.
Gist of Idea
Moral problems are responsibility conflicts, needing contextual and narrative attention to relationships
Source
Carol Gilligan (In a Different Voice [1982], p.19), quoted by Will Kymlicka - Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.264
A Reaction
[Kymlicka cites her as a key voice in feminist moral philosophy] I like all of this, especially the very original thought (to me, anyway) that moral thinking should be 'narrative' in character.
18665 | Moral problems are responsibility conflicts, needing contextual and narrative attention to relationships [Gilligan] |