Allmark P
University of Sheffield, England.
J Adv Nurs. 1998 Sep;28(3):466-72. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00803.x.
The significance of the question 'Is caring a virtue?' lies in the fact that both the ethics of virtue and the ethics of care have been proposed as alternatives to what may be termed 'bioethics'. The ethics of care has been of particular interest to nursing theorists, especially those who want to say that there is a body of distinctively nursing ethical theory which is different from bioethics. In answering the main question there are three supplementary aims: first, to explore the relationship between virtue ethics and the ethics of care, it is suggested that caring is not a virtue, but that the virtues involve caring correctly; second, to give a broad outline of what is meant by an ethics of virtue, including what it means to care correctly; and third, to examine implications of the theory for nursing.
“关怀是一种美德吗？”这个问题的重要性在于，美德伦理学和关怀伦理学都被提出作为所谓“生物伦理学”的替代方案。关怀伦理学尤其引起了护理理论家的兴趣，特别是那些想要表明存在一套有别于生物伦理学的独特护理伦理理论的人。在回答这个主要问题时，有三个补充目标：第一，探讨美德伦理学与关怀伦理学之间的关系，有人认为关怀不是一种美德，但美德包含正确的关怀；第二，大致勾勒出美德伦理学的含义，包括正确关怀的含义；第三，审视该理论对护理的影响。
