Enactivism and Care Ethics. Merging Perspectives

0443736 - FLÚ 2016 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Urban, Petr
Enactivism and Care Ethics. Merging Perspectives.
Filozofia. Roč. 70, č. 2 (2015), s. 119-129. ISSN 0046-385X
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Keywords : care ethics * enactivism * agency * autonomy * social institutions * transformation
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

This paper aims to show that, despite the prima facie differences and separate developmental trajectories of enactivism and care ethics, both approaches have put forward, at about the same period of time, a powerful criticism of traditional individualistic and rationalistic accounts of autonomy, cognition, and agency, and have suggested a revision of these notions in terms of a relational ontology with an emphasis on the embodied and situated nature of cognition and agency. The first part of the paper provides a picture of an enactive research program. Its implications for an enactive ethics are discussed as well. In the second part some striking affinities between the enactive approach and the ethics of care are explored.
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