Relational Ethics

Abstract

Although relational conceptions of morality have existed for many centuries, indeed probably long before alternative views, it is only lately that relationalism has been articulated as a distinct kind of ethic in English‐speaking philosophy. Recent awareness of it has been occasioned mainly by twentieth‐century challenges to characteristically male and Western approaches to normativity. On the one hand, some feminists have argued that girls and women are more likely to adhere to a relational ethic, often one of care (perhaps for reasons of nurture as opposed to nature). On the other hand, greater intercultural exchanges have made English speakers more aware of African and Asian moral philosophies, which tend to place familial bonds at the core of how to live.

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