Are Second Person Needs ‘Burdened Virtues’?: Exploring the Risks and Rewards of Caring
This essay contributes to the ethics of vulnerability and to the tradition of feminist care ethics by introducing the notion of second-person needs. Employing the work of Annette Baier, who argues that we are all ‘second persons’ insofar as personhood arises through a childhood in the care of other...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Western Ontario
2017-10-01
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Series: | Feminist Philosophy Quarterly |
Online Access: | https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/3095 |