배려윤리와 유교윤리의 공통점과 그 함의

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to compare care ethics with Confucian ethics, and search for its implication.
Since Carol Gillian published In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women s Development, 1982, lots of discourse on the care ethics have been made by mainly feminist . The care ethics is regarded as developing and alternative ethics to the rule-based ethics that have dominated the West, and estimated as a new and effective ethics against the moral crisis.
Confucian ethics, on the other hand, is established traditional ethics that have dominated the Far East, and is regarded as typically patriarchal ethics.
There are similarities or common grounds between the care ethics and the Confucian ethics as follows:
1. The care ethics and the Confucian ethics both are a context-centered ethics. For the morality, consideration on the moral situations is more important than compiling with moral principle.
2. Both of two ethics are the relation-centered ethics. Key point for a morality is not a moral thinking or reasonable decision of independent per son, but making and keeping of appropriate relation with other s for good living.
3. For the two ethics both, the origin of morality is not moral rule but a native moral mind. The outgoing of the moral mind has graduations such as in per son relationship the nearer is the stronger, the further is the weaker.
4. For the two ethics both, encouraging and outspreading is needed for establishing moral community and completing the morality.
5. For the two ethics both, moral education is important for encouraging and outspreading of the moral mind . The programs of the moral education mu st involved with modeling, practice, confirm.
The similarity and common ground are helpful for the development of the both ethics. On the basis of common ground, the care ethics and the Confucian ethics is able to have clues to come up with negative opinions each other.