In a Different Voice
Carol Gilligan · 1982 CE
Excerpt
“The care perspective takes as its starting point the relationships in which we live rather than the abstract principles we are supposed to abide by. (paraphrase of the 1982 book)”
Why the atlas keeps it
Gilligan reads Kohlberg's own research data and argues that what his sample heard as a lower stage of moral reasoning is a different orientation organised around responsibility and relationship. Written into a field that had treated the hierarchy as a fact about development rather than about who was being studied. The excerpt below paraphrases the book's central claim rather than quoting it.
Terms this text reaches for
Ranked by the codex search index against the summary above, not hand-picked.
Imperative of responsibility
philosophyThe duty to weigh the full, indefinite consequences of an action before taking it.
Moral status
ethicsThe property of counting as a party that can be owed something and can be wronged.
Moral luck
ethicsCircumstances outside your control that determine how moral you are judged to be.
Moral patient
ethicsAn entity that can be benefited or harmed but is not a moral agent.
Care versus justice
philosophyThe standing debate over whether obligation is built from relationships or from impartial rules.
Legitimacy
philosophyThe right to be obeyed, held by a rule or authority rather than by its author.