The Pathology of Care

Abstract

This research explores two conflicting ethical systems. Neoliberalism’s foundations support an overarching ethic of individual autonomy and individual responsibility. Institutionalism contrasts this conception with a view of human beings as relational. The ethical foundation of such a view requires a meta-ethic of interpersonal responsibility that supports an ethic of care.

Keywords

• care
• autonomy
• neoliberalism
• Veblen (Thorstein)
• institutionalism