Thank you for this, what a wealth of resources to think about and come back to ! I indeed have come to think that care ethics is at its best when it involves dialogue from many different cultural contexts, rather than just intra-Anglophone world.
Autonomy becomes thinner when it is imagined as independence from need. A relational decision can be fully autonomous; sometimes the relation is what lets a real preference become thinkable in the first place.
Clinical language can miss this when it asks whether someone can decide "for themselves," as if "for themselves" meant alone. Often a person can only articulate a genuine choice once dependence stops being read as a failure of personhood.
Non-intervention belongs to this picture too. Care includes the discipline of recognising when an offered act would override a person's own rhythm. Dignity is not restored by making someone look self-sufficient; it returns when dependence no longer has to count as disappearance.
Such a rich interview; reading this, I’m finding deep resonance, especially with care aesthetics and non-intervention - from my lived experience of caring for someone at the end-of-life. Thank you both!
Thank you for this, what a wealth of resources to think about and come back to ! I indeed have come to think that care ethics is at its best when it involves dialogue from many different cultural contexts, rather than just intra-Anglophone world.
Autonomy becomes thinner when it is imagined as independence from need. A relational decision can be fully autonomous; sometimes the relation is what lets a real preference become thinkable in the first place.
Clinical language can miss this when it asks whether someone can decide "for themselves," as if "for themselves" meant alone. Often a person can only articulate a genuine choice once dependence stops being read as a failure of personhood.
Non-intervention belongs to this picture too. Care includes the discipline of recognising when an offered act would override a person's own rhythm. Dignity is not restored by making someone look self-sufficient; it returns when dependence no longer has to count as disappearance.
Such a rich interview; reading this, I’m finding deep resonance, especially with care aesthetics and non-intervention - from my lived experience of caring for someone at the end-of-life. Thank you both!