Caring ethics: a different voice

Abstract

This text describes the particularities of the ethics of care, based on the arguments of philosopher and psychologist
Carol Gilligan, who considered that a moral theory based on the concept of justice, represents the
epistemic hegemony of male thinking and contributes to the maintenance of discrimination against women,
describing them as inferior in their moral reasoning. This imagery has been nurtured by the existence of
false problem of a damaged female moral development, dating back at least to the work of Sigmund Freud.
The ethics of care is presented as a different voice in the tradition of western moral discourse; another voice
not by gender but due to the problematization of moral theory limited in their understanding of the human
condition and inevitably blind towards other truths about life.