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Relation, Virtue, and Relational Virtue: Three Concepts of Caring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shirong Luo
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Abstract

This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue ethics, and to make the connections between the ethics of care and Confucian ethics philosophically clearer and more defensible.

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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Summer 2007, pp. 92 - 110
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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