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Autonomy, Relationality, and Feminist Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jean Keller
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Abstract

While care ethics has frequently been criticized for lacking an account of autonomy, this paper argues that care ethics’ relational model of moral agency provides the basis for criticizing the philosophical tradition's model of autonomy and for rethinking autonomy in relational terms. Using Diana Meyers s account of autonomy competency as a basis, a dialogical model of autonomy is developed that can respond to internal and external critiques of care ethics.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Spring 1997 , pp. 152 - 164
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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