Phenomenology
Is caring responsibility only a choice we take?
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Care ethics treats responsibility as something taken or refused; a radical phenomenology adds a passive, invisible call that comes from outside the subject.
Study at a glance
- Design
- Other — Phenomenological extension of care ethics via Marion/Levinas on a passive call of responsibility
- N
- Philosophical ethics; not an empirical sample
- Population
- Care-ethics accounts of responsibility (Gilligan, Noddings, Tronto, Walker) and caregiving burdens
- Outcome
- Passive, invisible call of responsibility beyond taken/refused voluntary responsibility
Structured fields used in claim comparison tables when every cited study has a complete layer.
Key findings
Responsibility has a passive side: a call in silence, invisible, from outside the subject. Making that explicit is a promise for care ethics, not a replacement of Tronto/Walker’s social analysis.
Methodology
Starting from Gilligan, Noddings, Tronto and Walker, the authors note that if responsibility is not taken, care does not occur, yet certain groups still carry it. They turn to Marion (drawing on Levinas) for a silent, invisible call, aiming to ease pressure on individual caregivers by exposing the passive aspect care ethics already has but underplays.
Limitations
This is phenomenological theory, not a new ethnography of carers. It does not measure caregiver burden.
How this study connects
Role on claims
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Care ethics treats responsibility as taken or refused; radical phenomenology adds a passive, invisible call that comes from outside the subject.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
In care ethics, one phenomenological study used Marion and Levinas to expose a passive, invisible call of responsibility that comes from outside the subject, arguing this complements rather than replaces the social analyses of Tronto and Walker. The result is a re-description of what care ethics already contains, not a new account of caregiver burden.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
Across the set, the output is an argument rather than a dataset. The papers describe themselves as essays, reconstructions or legal-philosophical analyses; none produces a clinical score, a cohort or a trial, and several say so explicitly in their limits.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
Open questions
Tensions this paper is part of
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Care ethics treats responsibility as taken or refused; radical phenomenology adds a passive, invisible call that comes from outside the subject.
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