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Abstract
Care – a critical analysis of the discourse of care and justice
In this paper I address some of the contentious issues concerning the ethics of
care as it has developed in the last decades. I focus my attention on how the
unspoken hegemony of the discourse on rights and justice is used to undermine
valid criticism of precisely that hegemony.
In the first part I introduce care as an ethical concept and its role in the dis-
course on feminist ethics in the last decades. I touch on some of the terminologi-
cal issues that appear when trying to translate the English word „care“ into the
Icelandic „umhyggja“. I also address the relational character of individuality and
the importance of relationships in the ethics of care.
In the second part I proceed to discuss the relationship between care and justice.
There I problematize the classical interpretation of that relationship, where care
has usually been subordinated to justice or even consider non-moral. I mainly
address the criticisms levelled by Vilhjálmur Árnason against Carol Gilligan’s In
a Different Voice in his book Farsælt líf, réttlátt samfélag. There I suggest that the
hegemonic discourse of rights and justice is used to unfairly undercut the points
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