FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR SOME NORMATIVE QUESTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Abstract

This article reviews some of the contributions that the feminist ethics of care framework has made to the study of ethics. Although ethics of care framework has raised a successful critique of the masculunist bias inhering within the prominent Western moral theories, some feminist scholars have maintained a critical attitude towards care ethics because of its tendency to essentialize emotions of feminine caring. In reviewing these different feminist approaches to the study of ethics, the article argues that in thinking about the questions of war and justice in international realm, both care ethicists and its critique could be utilized for a more fruitful understanding of the ethical dimensions of our actions.

Keywords

• feminist ethics of care, ethnics of justice, ethics in International Politics

BAKIM/ÖZEN ETİĞİ VE ULUSLARARASI SİYASETİN BAZI NORMATİF SORULARI İÇİN ÖNEMİ

Öz

Bu makale, feminist bakım/özen etiğinin ahlak felsefesi alanına yaptığı katkılardan bazılarını gözden geçirmektedir. Her ne kadar bakım/özen etiği, Batılı ahlak teorilerinin eril bakış açılarının başarılı bir eleştirisini ortaya koymuş olsa da, bazı feminist düşünürler, bakım/özen etiğine karşı dişil bakıma olan özcül yaklaşımları nedeniyle mesafeli durmuşlardır. Makale etik alanına bu farklı feminist yaklaşımları gözden geçirirken, uluslararası siyasette savaş ve adalet sorularının etik boyutlarını kavramada, iki yaklaşımdan da faydalanabileceğini tartışmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• bakım/özen etiği,adalet etiği,uluslararası siyasette etik

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