8 & 9 Discussion - Essay Example

Every human being has been cared for in some way or the other or else life would not have been possible in this earth. “Care is both value and practice”. (Held, 2007, p.9) It is absolutely necessary that the ethics of care should incorporate empathy within it. At the same time care ethics devoid of rationality and reason is of no use. Only then can care ethics become successful when it includes a proper proportion of reason and feelings. Caring about a person is basically feeling for that person.

Unless we develop some kinds of spontaneous urge for a person we will not be in a position to care for him. The fact that we care for ourselves is because we love ourselves and want to stay happy and healthy. At the same time we care for others because we love them and want to make them happy. Thus we can see that the prime factor, which initiates care, is certainly emotions and feelings. (Devettere, 2000, p.51). Reason at the same time has an important role to play in attributes like care. Unless an individual is able to intellectually determine the value of a relationship it is not possible that he or she will be in a position to give care to others.

This on the other hand happens because care ethics is incorporated within the parameters of virtue and so it is certain that a man with virtue will determine the rationale of care giving. (Halwani, 2003, p.23). Thus we can say that both reason and feelings are closely related to the concept of care ethics and it is not possible that either reason or feelings direct care ethics. Such a condition is in evident because unless there is enough reason it is not possible to develop empathy. Leaving aside care ethics if we talk about ethics in general we will find that ethics regulates the lives of many.

While citing for examples it can be said that a special code of ethics had been developed for women of the society. The special ethics emphasizes on the fact that men must govern women and they