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Care ethics which Nel Noddings is a pioneer of, has recently been debated especially in the field of philosophy and education. Noddings positions care ethics in the face of both liberalism’s prevailing two moral doctrines, ie, Utilitarianism and Kantianism and of Virtue ethics. According to her, liberalism cannot shed light on many problems by starting from “individual” which is independent of community, of the relations of dependence and care. Although the virtue ethics has many justified arguments on criticism of liberalism, its emphasis on virtues constitutes some obstacles within a pluralistic unity. For we can have different traditions that prioritize different virtues, and these differences can create serious conflicts among people, on which virtues we will build public life and education. Yet according to Noddings, care is something that every human being demands as a universal wish, and from childhood until death we all have certain relations of care, dependency. Noddings indicate that growing care in every area especially in education will allow us to dialogue with and to listen to each other. This first step which is necessary to constitute a relationship, to understand each other, will enable us to be sensitive to the many problems of the world, to the poor, the animals, despite all our differences. In this paper, we will consider the care ethics of Noddings by paying attention to education.

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