Justice, autonomy and care: symposium on Asha Bhandary’s freedom to care: liberalism, dependency care and justice

ABSTRACT

This contribution discusses Asha Bhandary’s book Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care and Justice and engages with some key concepts used by three commentators Daniel Engster, Kelly Gawel, and Andrea Westlund in this book symposium. The symposium makes it clear that care can be a central notion not only in the ethics of care, but also in debates about liberalism, justice and autonomy.

KEYWORDS:

• Care
• liberalism
• autonomy
• justice
• freedom

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Amy Mullin

Amy Mullin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, The Journal of Social Philosophy, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Hypatia and Cambridge University Press. She is interested in questions about the responsibilities of members of relationships that involve substantial asymmetries, along with questions in aesthetics.