Annette Baier: The Need for More Than Justice
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What I expect to learn:
In this chapter, I expect to learn what does Annette Baier means by the title “The Need for More Than Justice.
Quote:
“For “care” is the new buzz-word.”
Review:
In this Chapter, Annette Baier talks about two perspectives. The justice perspective and care perspective. We can see here that there are many male philosophical spokespersons for the care perspective. Gilligan still wants to claim that women are most unlikely to take only the justice perspective. It is in nature of women that care perspective because of their role as primary care takers of their children and of course women are known to be more warm-hearted person. Also she explains the Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. Kohlberg developed this theory about typical moral development which saw it to progress from a pre-conventional level, where what it seem to matter is pleasing or not offending parental authority figure, through a conventional level in which the child tries to fit in with a group, such as school community, and conform to the principles and policy to a post-conventional critical level, in which such conventional policy are subjected to analysis or assessment, and where those assessments are utilitarian or related to Kantian views where ones that require respect for each person’s individual rational will, or autonomy, and conformity to any understood social contract such wills are deemed to have made, or to any hypothetical ones they would make of thinking clearly. Gilligan believed that we, the girls and women not only said as lower than the boys and men, but be inclined to revert to the lower stage of the conventional level even after briefly attaining the post conventional level. Also Baier talks about the need to transvaluing, the values of our patriarchal past, she means that she wants to develop and pursue it. For her, there is no need to remove the old ones, it should be retained and just improve it. In Kantian view people are required to do their duty because it requires them to do so. With women and minorities there are some limitations with their duties and responsibilities because some of them are not capable to do their duties. People have different capacities and that is what he wants to point out.
What I have learned:
I’ve learned in this chapter that justice perspective is not enough as a moral theory. If there is justice there must also be care.
Integrative questions:
- What does Annette baier means by the “ the need to more than justice”?
- What is justice perspective?
- What is care perspective?
