Allmark P
Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery.
J Med Ethics. 1995 Feb;21(1):19-24. doi: 10.1136/jme.21.1.19.
There is a growing body of writing, for instance from the nursing profession, espousing an approach to ethics based on care. I suggest that this approach is hopelessly vague and that the vagueness is due to an inadequate analysis of the concept of care. An analysis of 'care' and related terms suggests that care is morally neutral. Caring is not good in itself, but only when it is for the right things and expressed in the right way. 'Caring' ethics assumes wrongly that caring is good, thus it can tell us neither what constitutes those right things, nor what constitutes the right way.
例如,来自护理行业的著述越来越多,支持一种基于关怀的伦理方法。我认为这种方法极其模糊,而这种模糊性源于对关怀概念的分析不足。对“关怀”及相关术语的分析表明,关怀在道德上是中性的。关怀本身并非善,只有当它针对正确的事物并以正确的方式表达时才是善的。“关怀”伦理错误地假定关怀是善的,因此它既无法告诉我们什么构成了那些正确的事物,也无法告诉我们什么构成了正确的方式。