Episode #168 ... Introduction to an Ethics of Care

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  So the story of what's come to be known today in the world of philosophy as an ethics of care begins almost 50 years ago in the 1970s.

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  The setting is Harvard University.

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  The main character of the story is Carol Gilligan,

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  a talented student doing work in the field of developmental psychology.

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  And the first conflict that Gilligan faces in this chapter of the story is with her teacher,

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  a man by the name of Lawrence Colberg.

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  Now Colberg,

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  pretty much considered to be the gold standard of the time when it comes to gauging the levels of moral development in children.

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  The idea is simple.

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  It's a mystery of the universe.

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  How do people go from being infants, rolling around in a pile of human excrement all day,

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  to being upstanding members of society, making ethical decisions about complicated situations?

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  How would you even study something like that if you wanted to?

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  Well, to Colberg, you gather up a bunch of kids,

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  you put them into a room, you present the kids with moral dilemmas of various types,

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  you ask them for what they think the correct way is to navigate the moral decision,

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