Thinking, feeling, and moral imagination

Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 135-145

  Noddings, Nel ^a  

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EID: 61049083793     PISSN: 03636550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4975.1998.tb00334.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Michael Stocker, Valuing Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 138.
2. For discussion bearing on belief and empathy, see John Deigh, "Empathy and Universalizability," Ethics 105 (1995): 743-63;
3. Alfred R. Mele, "Internalist Moral Cognitivism and Listlessness," Ethics 106 (1996): 727-53;
4. also Stocker, Valuing Emotions.
5. From the cover of Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower (New York: Schocken Books, 1976).
6. Cynthia Ozick, "Notes toward a Meditation on 'Forgiveness,'" in The Sunflower, 187.
7. Edward H. Flannery, untitled response, in The Sunflower, 113.
8. Ozick, "Notes on 'Forgiveness,'" 190.
9. Deigh, "Empathy and Universalizability," 750.
10. Mele, "Internalist Moral Cognitivism," 753.
11. Jonathan Dancy, "Intuitionism," in A Companion to Ethics, ed. Peter Singer (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 415.
12. See, again, the discussion in Deigh, Mele, and Stocker.
13. I have described a caring mode as one in which the carer attends to the needs and desires of the cared-for and responds as positively as possible given the circumstances and the relatively stable constellation of beliefs, attitudes, and desires that have been established on the foundation of a persistent desire to care for (promote the well-being of) those encountered. See Nel Noddings, Caring (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984);
14. also Women and Evil (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
15. On the question whether an aversion to inconsistency is inherent in reason, see the discussion in Deigh, "Empathy," 750-51.
16. From Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Complete Poetry and Collected Prose (New York: Library of America, 1982), 246.
17. Ozick, "Notes on 'Forgiveness,'" 187.
18. Flannery, untitled response, 114-15.
19. George Orwell, The Orwell Reader (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956), 423.
20. Ozick, "Notes on 'Forgiveness,' " 185.
21. Empirical evidence for this claim is not hard to find. For example, in a study by Samuel and Pearl Oliner, non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust were reported as motivated by empathy in 37 percent of the cases, by principle (or belief) in only 11 percent. More (52%) were motivated by community norms - norms that were seen to apply to "people like us."The moral goodness of this last motive is, of course, entirely dependent on the goodness of the community. Normocentricity can press for either good or evil. See also Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton, Crimes of Obedience (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989);
22. Larry May and Stacey Hoffman, eds., Collective Responsibility (Savage, Mo.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991).