著者

鬼頭 葉子

出版者

長野工業高等専門学校

雑誌

長野工業高等専門学校紀要 = Memoirs of Nagano National College of Technology (ISSN:18829155)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, pp.1-8, 2019-06-30

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Michael Slote is a philosopher who bases his work on the ethics of empathic care and considers that the ethics of caring and empathy are also effective in realizing social justice. Slote considers justice in the laws, institutions, and practices of society as the analogy for ethics among individuals. Furthermore, Slote rejects the position that the ethics of care is not compatible with considering justice, and he claims that the ethics of care creates its own concept of justice. This article explores the notion of social justice starting from an individual's empathy. How does empathic social justice build its own notion of justice? I will discuss the plausibility and limitations of Slote’s theory of justice based on empathy.