Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie. He received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University and has been awarded several prizes for poetry and literary essays. In 1973 he received the Outstanding Educator of America Award.
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison,Wisconsin
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, New York
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 Moral Community 1
1 Why Community? 3
2 Good and Moral Community 19
3 "The Good Society": A Comparative Sketch 39
Part 2 An Ethic of Caring 59
4 An Ethic of Caring-I 61
5 An Ethic of Caring-II 75
6 Human Rights and the Ethic of Caring-I 115
7 Human Rights and the Ethic of Caring-II 139
8 Justice and the Ethic of Caring 161
9 Persons, Community, and the Ethic of Caring 205
Part 3 Human Rights, Justice, and Moral Community 221
10 Human Rights and Moral Community 223
11 The "Institutional" Role of Human Rights in a Moral Community 259
12 Justice and Moral Community 279
13 Feminist and "Postmodern" Challenges to Communitarianism 293
14 Conclusion 325
Index 331
Overview
Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie. He received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University and has been awarded several prizes for poetry and literary essays. In 1973 he received the Outstanding Educator of America Award.