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Starting at Home - Caring and Social Policy (Paperback)
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Starting at Home - Caring and Social Policy (Paperback)
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Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary
discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way
of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides
social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug
treatment, homelessness, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings
inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic
of care can have profound and compelling implications for social
and political thought.
Instead of beginning with an ideal state and then describing a role
for home and family, this book starts with an ideal home and asks
how what is learned there may be extended to the larger social
domain. Noddings examines the tension between freedom and equality
that characterized liberal thought in the twentieth century and
finds that--for all its strengths--liberalism is still inadequate
as social policy. She suggests instead that an attitude of
attentive love in the home induces a corresponding responsiveness
that can serve as a foundation for social policy.
With her characteristic sensitivity to the individual and to the
vulnerable in society, the author concludes that any corrective
practice that does more harm than the behavior it is aimed at
correcting should be abandoned. This suggests an end to the
disastrous war on drugs. In addition, Noddings states that the
caring professions that deal with the homeless should be guided by
flexible policies that allow practitioners to respond adequately to
the needs of very different clients. She recommends that the school
curriculum should include serious preparation for home life as well
as for professional and civic life.
Emphasizing the importance of improving life in everyday homes and
the possible role social policy might play in this improvement,
"Starting at Home" highlights the inextricable link between the
development of care in individual lives and any discussion of moral
life and social policy.
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