Download or read book Comprehending Care written by Tove Pettersen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Comprehending Care, Tove Pettersen subjects the ethics of care, as advanced by Carol Gilligan, to a moral-philosophical examination. More precisely, she extracts the philosophical foundation in this ethics, probes its possible implications for moral theory of a more traditional stamp, and explores its normative plausibility. Pettersen exposes several misconceptions of Gilligan's work.