12.5 Chapter Glossary

Centrality of Emotions – The insistence of care ethics that human emotions should always be a key factor in moral decision making.

Contextualization – The focus on specific situations and persons when making ethical decisions.

Desire to Care – The primary motive for all moral action according to Care ethicists.

Embodiedness – The recognition of human bodily vulnerability in moral situations.

Intersectionality – A framework that examines how multiple systems of oppression and social identities interact to create unique experiences for people. It’s a tool for understanding how power and privilege are structured differently across groups of people, and how these structures shape inequality.

Patriarchy – The historic anti-female prejudices that have placed women and women’s experience in a subordinate position to men.

Relational Ontology – The view that individuals are constituted by their webs of social relationships and dependencies.

Three Moral Positions – Carol Gilligan’s recategorization of Kohlberg’s three stages of moral development.

Ubuntu – The African philosophy that emphasizes the interconnectedness of individuals and their communities, and the importance of the group over the individual.