Professor Sandra Laugier, University of Paris and Scientific Deputy Director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
The ethics of care is not based on universal principles, but draws on the experiences of everyday life and the moral problems and practices of humans in their ordinary lives. The notion of care is best expressed not in the form of a theory, but as an activity − care as action and as concern. Care is thus at the same time a practical response to specific needs, an activity necessary to maintaining connections and it is being carried out in both the private and public spheres but it is also a sensitivity to “what matters”. Such an ethics draws our attention to the ordinary, to that what is there but not recognized. It offers the opportunity of expression to humans that are undervalued precisely because they undertake unnoticed, invisible tasks. This inquiry into care practices does not only present a paradigm shift in ethics but also an actual political challenge − where the human condition is redefined by vulnerability instead of autonomy, resilience and self-management.
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In de periode van 15 oktober t/m 3 december 2014 organiseerden dr. Jaco Hoffman van het Oxford Institute of Population Ageing en de hoogleraren Frans Vosman en Andries Baart van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek een reeks van 8 seminars over zorgethiek. De seminars werden verzorgd door vooraanstaande wetenschappers op dit vakgebied uit Frankrijk, Amerika, Duitsland, Engeland en Nederland. Van alle seminars werden beeldregistraties gemaakt, die via de website van Stichting Presentie beschikbaar gesteld worden. Van sommige lezingen zijn ook de handouts beschikbaar.
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