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So today we discuss the ethic of care
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and as the name suggests the ethics of care begins with the idea
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that to be good or to live a good life means to care.
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We are caring beings.
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And that is how the theory understands human nature.
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We are feeling beings, okay, and relational beings.
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Our feelings are always related to others.
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The ethic of care is really a 20th century development.
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and it is largely a response to the perceived historical neglect of the feminine perspective in ethics.
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Now the reasoning here, which I think is sound, is that really until the 20th century,
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Not only minority groups,
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but also women did not have the same platform to articulate their thinking about ethical issues or metaphysical issues.
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And so the result, according to these theorists, is
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that a very important aspect of what it means to be
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a good person has been overlooked by the subsequent history of ethical philosophy.
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The feminine perspective in ethics.
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And so we begin with this idea that men
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and women think fundamentally differently about what it means to live a good life.
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Now what do you think about that?
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Do you think men and women think differently
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when it comes to what it means to be good or what I ought to do?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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And I would agree with that.
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And for whatever reason, one,
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I think, very sound possible explanation is that traditionally men have been hunters, right?
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And women have been caretakers.
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Okay?
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Now this has changed dramatically in the 20th
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and 21st century where typically you know both spouses will have jobs
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and you know you have house husbands
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and mr. moms okay taking care of the children when the woman has a career okay so to some extent,
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things have changed.
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Well, yeah, because men more or less think to problem solve, as opposed to women who think like you said.
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Okay, and think about why that might be.
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If men are more competitive and women more sensitive or empathetic,
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compassionate, this could be the result of any number of reasons.
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For one thing, since men have traditionally been breadwinners and women caretakers,
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think about the different strategies that each role demands.
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If I'm a businessman or a hunter and I've got competition,
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I cannot afford to feel compassion for my competition.
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If I'm a businessman, if I work for Apple and I see that the Microsoft stock has plummeted,
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I can't really afford to feel bad for them and say, you know what?
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We were about to release the iPhone 6, but we're going to put it off for a little while to let you guys catch up.
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That's not the way things work in the business world.
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Furthermore, as a good businessman, you need to be impartial.
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You should treat all of your business associates the same way.
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But in the home, things are completely different.
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Obviously, a mother not only will be partial to her own children,
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as opposed to the children of strangers,
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but I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that it's right that she does that.
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She brought these particular children into the world.
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They have come to depend upon her.
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She has presented herself as their caretaker,
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and so she does have a special obligation to her own children that she does not have to other children.
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So the ethics of care,
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like utilitarianism, also has a major break with traditional ethical thinking.
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Every theory that we have looked at so far, whether it's virtue ethics, natural law ethics,
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contract ethics, or utilitarianism, has insisted on some principle of equality or impartiality.
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I should be impartial when making moral decisions.
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It doesn't matter if we're talking about my well-being or your well-being.
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I need to do the right thing, not just what's going to make me feel good.
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As Socrates said, when a person is considering what to do,
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he or she ought never calculate the chances of living or dying.
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but only whether or not what he or she is doing is right.
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Okay?
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The ethic of care emphasizes partiality as a basic moral principle.
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I have a moral obligation to be partial,
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to show favoritism to those beings for whom I am responsible,
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or to whom I have become the caretaker.
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Okay?
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So, for the ethic of care, living a good life means caring for others.
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And according to Melnades, the moral relationship
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that exists between two parties is always between what she calls
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the one caring and the one cared for.
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Okay?
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So, I am the one caring for my children.
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My children are the ones being cared for.
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Now how does this relationship ensue?
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Where does my obligation to care for another being originate?
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it simply originates on the basis of my having established a relationship.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Did you say maternal?
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Absolutely, certainly, okay?
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Obviously, for the most part,
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mothers have a maternal instinct that makes them partial to protecting their own children.
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And so according to the ethic of care,
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moral obligations, what I ought to do,
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does not arise from rationality
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or even feelings like what I feel like doing at any particular moment
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or from God or from the natural purposes of things okay like natural law ethics tells us
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or virtue although care ethics is an aspect of virtue theory
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because one virtue is loyalty okay and think about this we would all agree that loyalty is a virtue
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but loyalty by its very nature is partial it's a contradiction to say that i am loyal universally
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Loyalty always takes a specific person.
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I am loyal to this person, this child, this animal.
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And like utilitarianism, the ethic of care also takes animals into consideration.
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Because moral obligations arise from personal relationships.
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When I have presented myself as a caretaker,
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I have created for myself a moral obligation to care for the other.
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But the one cared for also has a moral obligation.
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And that is simply to acknowledge their caretaker.
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I do not think this means fawning gratitude.
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Okay?
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But it simply means, for example,
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that I explicitly recognize that my parents take care of me.
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Okay?
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And if you think about it practically, if you have spent time and energy
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and sacrificed even your own interests in the care of another,
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and that person is completely ungrateful, right?
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Treats you with disrespect.
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Acts as though they never asked you to care for them.
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You know, that was your choice.
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I don't owe you anything, okay?
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That would be an affront.
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It would be wrong.
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And so the relationship between the one caring
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and the one cared for is
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that the one caring has a moral obligation to respond to the perceived needs of the other.
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So if I see that my child needs food or clothing or education and I respond to that need,
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not because it makes me feel good, not because I don't want to go to jail, not because I have some legal obligation to do so,
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but simply because I recognize that the person
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or animal for whom I have taken on the role of caretaker is in need,
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I have a moral obligation to satisfy that need.
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So if we ask the practical question of ethics,
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namely what makes an action right or wrong?
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An action is right when it is a genuine response to the perceived needs of another.
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So imagine something like this.
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Imagine that there are many stray cats in your neighborhood, and there are tons of them in my neighborhood, okay?
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But I start putting food out for one of them, and the cat comes back the next day looking for food,
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and I feed it, and the next day, and the next day.
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I have then presented myself as caretaker, and this animal has come to depend upon me.
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And even though it can't say thank you, when it comes up to my front door and scratches and meows at me,
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that is acknowledging that I am its caretaker. and
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so I have created for myself a moral obligation to care for this being and when we
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think about what it means to be,
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let's say, a good parent or a good steward of the earth.
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We do not think about it simply in terms of having a duty or a legal obligation.
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because part of being a good parent is not just putting food on the table.
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If I'm feeding my children and I'm shoveling out macaroni and cheese on their plates and I'm saying,
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you darn kids, if I hadn't studied ethics, you'd be awful hungry.
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Well, you are failing in your obligation
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Because part of caring for a child is letting them know that they are special,
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that they mean something to you more than the anonymous child does. or imagine this
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imagine that you have put away a college fund for your child
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and you've been accumulating this money since they were born
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but as they grow up you realize your child is an average student
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and not particularly interested in pursuing further education after high school but your next door neighbor's kid
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who you don't have any particularly close relationship with is brilliant and could possibly make a tremendous contribution to the world.
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Let's even say that I believe that this child could potentially develop a cure for cancer.
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Okay?
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Well, do I take my own child's college fund and give it to my next door neighbor just because,
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let's say, on the utilitarian basis,
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this is going to bring about more happiness for the whole? Of course not. Of course not.
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I have an obligation to my child because I have created
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that moral obligation on the basis of the relationship between my child and myself.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Now, of course, this entire theory is premised on the idea that men and women really do think differently about ethics.
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And there could be many causes for this.
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The one we've already considered is the difference in traditional gender roles.
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If men have traditionally been breadwinners and out there in the work world,
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then success means being impartial,
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not allowing your emotions or compassion to influence your decisions.
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I mean, if you have an employee who is failing his responsibilities
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or even stealing from you just because it might happen to be a friend of yours,
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you have a moral obligation to fire that employee.
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Okay?
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Because you have an obligation to the business.
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But as a homemaker, right?
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If I'm a father or a mother taking care of children on a daily basis,
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then I have a moral obligation to be partial,
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to be empathetic, compassionate, patient with my child in a way that I am not obligated to the anonymous child or animal.
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Okay?
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Another possible reason why men and women think differently about ethics,
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if indeed they do, could be something biological.
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I think we know that women have a biological imperative to protect their children.
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If you've ever watched anything on National Geographic or the Discovery Channel
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and witnessed the ferocity of a mother lioness protecting her cubs,
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she will put her own life in danger.
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she will confront a marauding male lion, which is almost certain death, to protect her cubs.
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So perhaps there is a biological imperative there.
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But whatever the origin of this difference between male and female perspectives and ethics might be,
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really is not relevant.
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The point is that, according to thinkers like Gilligan-Noddings and Held,
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part of being a good person means caring for others.
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And we care, especially for the people with whom we have personal relationships.
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And those relationships create real moral obligations.
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So I do not have a natural moral obligation to a stranger.
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Perhaps, and I think this is the case,
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the ethic of care can make room for degrees of care.
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Obviously, the level of care that I am going to exercise for my children is going to exceed
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the level of care I exercise for my next door neighbor's children.
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I still know those children and they know that I'm an adult
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that they can run to if they're in trouble and
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so I do have an obligation to those kids
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but it is not as stringent as the one I bear to my own children.
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And even if we remove this
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relationship yet another level let's say to mankind in general okay
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I don't know everyone on the earth okay
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but I do as a human being have some sort of
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relationship to humanity okay
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I have some sort of obligation to future generations even though
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they're not even born yet I should be a good steward of the earth
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I should I shouldn't destroy the earth just
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because I don't have a personal relationship with the future generations
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that will inherit the okay so I don't want you to be under the impression
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that the ethics of care is selfish
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that I am only concerned with the people that I love
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and that I have presented myself as caretaker for there can be degrees of care
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but the main issue here is
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that for the first time we see a theory
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which gives priority to being partial the
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principle of equality does not apply here there are degrees of intensity of relationships
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and the more the deeper a relationship I have with another person
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or animal the more stringent my moral obligation becomes to
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that person and again the obligation on the part of the one cared for is to acknowledge being cared for
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There was, and I believe he was a theoretical psychologist named Lawrence Kohlberg, okay?
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And he conducted an experiment whereby he took two young children,
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I think they were 12 years old, a boy and a girl, and he presented them with this scenario
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and the scenario is called Heinz's dilemma like the ketchup Heinz okay
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and he said imagine this that mr. Heinz is married
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and his wife is suffering from a fatal illness
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which is nevertheless curable
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but the cure is exorbitantly expensive prohibitively expensive okay perhaps
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it costs two dollars for the pharmaceutical company to produce
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but by the time it hits the shelf at the pharmacy it costs two hundred dollars a day okay
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so mr. Hines cannot afford to buy this remedy to save his wife
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so the question becomes should he steal it okay now obviously
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if you think back through the beer the various moral traditions
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we've discussed we may get different answers a different answer from the utilitarian
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and we get in the virtue ethic or the natural law ethic.
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But when the boy was asked what he ought to do,
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the boy immediately said, oh no, he can't steal it.
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Stealing is wrong.
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Period.
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I feel bad for his wife
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but it's not the pharmacist's problem the pharmacist has a right to make his living
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and so the boy saw things in very cut and dry terms
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and made reference to principle the principle that stealing is wrong period
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But when Kohlberg asked the young girl,
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she said, well, stealing is wrong, of course.
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But Heinz's wife should not have to die just because he doesn't have the money to afford the treatment.
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So in a sense, maybe he should steal it.
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But at the same time, she was able to see things from the pharmacist's point of view as well.
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And said the pharmacist too has rights.
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Okay?
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And so she was more multi-perspectival than the boy was.
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she was able to see things from both sides
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and was compassionate for both parties okay
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now Colbert suggests
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that we go through stages of moral development when we are first born
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all we really possess is a suckling reflex and bodily functions okay
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and when you're hungry or uncomfortable you cry you don't choose to cry you just cry
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and your caretaker your mother or your father comes
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and takes care of you will feed you will change your diaper whatever
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but then as you grow a little bit
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you realize hey wait a minute this crying thing is really powerful in fact I can cry even
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if I'm not hungry and my mom's gonna come
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and take care of me okay and so they're very egocentric okay the infant mentality is is all about itself.
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But then as this child grows a little bit and goes to school, he or she very quickly realizes that the teacher
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and the other children are not going to treat him or her the way that mommy is going to treat them.
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If I want another kid's Twinkies, I've got to bring something to the table I've got to say okay I'll trade you my peanut butter
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and jelly sandwich for your Twinkies okay and
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so the child begins to think not just in terms of ego and self-satisfaction but widens the perspective a bit
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and learns a new role.
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My role is no longer simply the child of these parents.
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But now I am also a member of this classroom.
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And we grow a little bit more.
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And my consciousness expands further.
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And I may come to recognize that not only do I have a role in my family
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and in a classroom but I have a role as a boy
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or girl I have a role perhaps as belonging to a sports team
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and as we get older we may come to understand ourselves as members of a community
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and have obligations that arise there from
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with a bit more development perhaps we begin to develop more of a nationalistic consciousness
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and eventually maybe a global consciousness and ultimately perhaps even a universal consciousness
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that moral principles ought to be universal in scope.
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Now, Colbert argues
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that these stages of moral development from the strictly egocentric to the universal
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are parallel with the stages of moral enlightenment.
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And so the more universal,
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principle-oriented, impartial my moral thinking is,
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the more morally enlightened I have become.
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But Carol Gilligan argues that just
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because we may happen to pass through these stages of so-called development
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does not necessarily mean that a global consciousness morally outranks a partial egocentric consciousness.
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Okay?
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And that my obligations to those with whom I have personal relationships
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are perhaps more incumbent upon me than any obligation I could possibly have to a stranger or to the world at large.
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So really the ethics of care is a repudiation of the idea that ethics ought to be universal and impartial.
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And rather, it should be partial and personal.
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Okay?
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Now, whether or not the ethic of care can stand on its own as a complete moral theory is highly questionable.
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Because after all, we do have a common sense notion that even when it comes to dealing with strangers,
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there are certain behaviors which are right and wrong.
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It doesn't matter if I know you or not.
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I still shouldn't steal from you.
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I still shouldn't treat you with disrespect.
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It doesn't matter if I know you okay and
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so perhaps utilitarians have something legitimate to contribute virtue ethics of
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course has something legitimate to contribute as natural law ethics does
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and so what we're starting to see is that perhaps no single moral tradition has a monopoly on the truth.
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Ethics is a complicated discipline and
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ultimately perhaps the kind of moral consciousness we develop is going to be a sort of conglomeration of bits
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and pieces and depending on the situation within which one finds oneself,
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perhaps a utilitarian viewpoint is more apt.
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Whereas in a different situation, the ethic of care may be more suitable.
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The ethics of care is an aspect of virtue ethics ethics because when we talk about loyalty patience kindness
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industriousness these are virtues and these are the kinds of character dispositions
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that are exhibited by a caring person okay
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so I would certainly be comfortable saying at least this much that the ethic of care has something
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indispensable to contribute to our ethical consciousness
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if not the basis for a complete moral theory
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it certainly does complement any other moral tradition okay
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now I have just realized a moment ago
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that I think I've taken these things out of order
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I think perhaps we were scheduled to talk about Comte first after all Comte is the 18th century moralist
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and the ethic of care is the 20th century moral theory
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but it makes no difference okay we can do this in any order we want.
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So, our next quiz will be, of course, on utilitarianism.
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Okay?
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And then the quiz after that perhaps will be on care ethics and something else.
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Okay?
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But we are now getting very close to the transitional part of the course,
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where we leave traditional ethical traditions behind and begin to consider existentialist perspectives on ethics.
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But before we do that, we are going to consider the ethical writing of Immanuel Kant,
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which is perhaps top shelf.
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It doesn't get any better.
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As far as execution, completeness,
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coherence, rationality, Kant is first rate.
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Okay?
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So your obligation right now,
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of course, is to make sure you've taken the first five quizzes and the midterm by tonight.
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As I've mentioned, if for some reason or another you cannot get one of these things done, that's all right.
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I will leave them open for you to take, but you will just have to wait for me to manually get it graded
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because the system won't grade it after the due date okay that's why
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if you've taken a quiz late you don't get a score right away okay right
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now you should have all your scores I think I've gotten through all the things
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that were in grade okay so for tonight simply worry about getting your midterm done
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and tomorrow I will introduce the deontological ethics okay
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if you have the textbook go ahead and read the chapter on deontological ethics
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but you know if you don't have time
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because of the midterm no sweat you can come back to later okay all right see you tomorrow

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moral прилагательное/ˈmoɹəl/мора́льный, нравоучи́тельный
obligation существительное/ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/обяза́тельство, долг
steal глагол/stiːl/красть, укра́сть
partial прилагательное/ˈpɑɹʃəl/части́чный
consciousness существительное/ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/созна́ние, созна́тельность
principle существительное/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/при́нцип
ethical прилагательное/ˈɛθɪkəl/эти́ческий
universal прилагательное/ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/вселе́нский, косми́ческий
loyalty существительное/ˈlɔɪəlti/ве́рность, лоя́льность
differently наречие/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/по-друго́му
hungry прилагательное/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/голо́дный
aspect существительное/ˈæspɛkt/аспе́кт, вид
contribute глагол/kənˈtɹɪb.jut/де́лать поже́ртвования, де́лать взно́сы
biological прилагательное/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/биологи́ческий
acknowledge глагол/əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/признава́ть, призна́ть

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  • Where does my obligation to care for another being originate?
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  • I don't owe you anything, okay?
  • It doesn't matter if I know you or not.
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  • Звуки «th»: ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, ethical /ˈɛθɪkəl/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/
  • Звуки «sh» и «zh»: obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/, partial /ˈpɑɹʃəl/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/
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Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

  • /w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: quiz /kwɪz/, equality /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, subsequent /ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/, sweat /swɛt/
  • /h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, hunter /ˈhʌntɚ/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/
  • Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/, arise /əˈɹaɪz/, quiz /kwɪz/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/

Как заниматься с этим видео

  1. Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
  2. Повторяйте предложение за предложением на обычной скорости, пока ваш ритм не совпадёт с ритмом говорящего.
  3. Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как moral, obligation, steal.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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