Caring, by Nel Noddings
After reading the selection from Caring, by Nel Noddings, provide written answers to the following questions. Please give complete answers in complete sentences.
- What is the difference between what Noddings calls “natural caring” and “ethical caring”?
- How does Noddings understand moral obligation and a moral ideal, and how are the two concepts related?
- Does Noddings believe in the supererogatory? Why or why not?
- What does Noddings think is the problem with “universal” understandings of ethics, like ethics based on universal justice or universal love?
- How does Noddings understand “right” and “wrong”?
- According to Noddings, what is the problem with the idea of moral justification?
- What does Noddings think is the danger of virtue-based approaches to ethics?
- How do men and women tend to approach morality differently, according to Noddings? In particular, what does Noddings mean by saying that “women have no need of a conceptualized God”?