Kuhse on caring.
After a brief description of Helga Kuhse's arguments on the place of caring in moral decision-making in her recent book, Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics, the author suggests that Kuhse is committed to reasons externalism and to a moderate form of motivational externalism. This compartmentalizes the psychology of moral agency and fails to see caring as the holistic stance toward patients which some nursing theorists have been espousing. The author then goes on to sketch such a holistic conception and to overcome difficulties relating to objectivity, the place of practical reason, and to weakness of will, which the new conception raises.
van Hooft
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School of Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
D003657:Decision Making; D004645:Empathy; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009014:Morals; D009042:Motivation; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing