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Engaging otherness: care ethics radical perspectives on empathy
Jolanda van Dijke1, Inge van Nistelrooij2, Pien Bos3
1University of Humanistic Studies, Kromme Nieuwegracht 29, Utrecht, 3512 HD, The Netherlands. jvd@uvh.nl.
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
|May 12, 2023
Summary
Care ethics offers a radical approach to empathy, emphasizing openness, critical reflection, and transformative engagement with others. This enhanced understanding of empathy can improve healthcare practices and education.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of care ethics
- Psychology of empathy
- Healthcare professional development
Background:
- Prevalent empathy definitions inadequately address 'otherness'.
- Care ethics proposes alternative conceptualizations of empathy.
- Need for empathy that acknowledges differences and biases.
Purpose of the Study:
- Explore care ethics' alternative conceptualizations of empathy.
- Analyze Noddings' engrossment, Meyers' broad empathy, and Baart's perspective-shifting.
- Define empathy as promoted by care ethics.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of care ethics literature.
- Examination of Noddings, Meyers, and Baart's theories.
- Synthesis of characteristics of care ethics-informed empathy.
Main Results:
- Care ethics promotes empathy characterized by receptiveness, broad scope, relationality, maturity, critical reflection, and transformative potential.
- Identified three key alternative conceptualizations: engrossment, broad empathy, and perspective-shifting.
- Empathy in care ethics is radical in its commitment to engaging otherness.
Conclusions:
- Care ethics offers a demanding yet rewarding model of empathy.
- This model can inspire healthcare professionals to rethink empathy's role.
- Enriches empathy education and professional practices in healthcare.
Keywords:
Care ethicsEmpathic biasEmpathy educationEngrossmentOthernessPresence theoryRadical empathyMore Related Videos
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