Review:
According to Annette Baier, there are 2 perspectives on moral and social issues. First is the justice perspective and the second one is the care perspective. I research on the meaning of justice perspective and this is what I found out. Justice perspective concentrates on how fairly or unfairly our actions bring benefits and burdens among people. The principle states: “Treat people the same unless there are morally relevant differences between them.” For Annette Baier, care perspective is related to women because women are the primary caretakers of young children. For her, the natural care perspective comes for the parental and maternal role of the mother. She also stated 2 evils that any child may become aware of. First, the evil of detachment or isolation from others whose love one needs which aims to gain satisfying community with others and the second one is the evil of relative powerlessness and weakness which aims for equality of power. She also discussed the 3 reasons why women have not to be content to pursue their own values w/n the framework of liberal morality. The reasons are: liberal morality’s dubious record, inattention to relations of inequality or its pretense equality and lastly, exaggeration of the scope of choice or its inattention to unchosen relations. On the latter part, she mention the fourth feature which is typical rationalism or intellectualism and its assumption that we need not worry what passions person have as long as their rational wills can control them.
Chapter 12: The Need for More than Justice
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