Annette Baier: The need for More Than Justice

Twelfth topic:

In this particular reading, Annette Baier learned from Kant and Rawls the justice perspective especially on the moral development on women. She argues that justice is inadequate as a moral theory. Inequalities means that, certain emotions don’t have importance to few of us. For Baier, 2 important things regarding moral theory, the justice and care. Based on the reading, “justice is a social value of very great importance and injustice an evil”. This means that, in this world justice is very important to us. Like our generation, most of the people are now “evil thinker”. Several crimes occurred like bombing, killing, kidnapping etc. Our world now is full of evil. That’s why we must value and have the sense of importance on justice.  Next is about “care”, she mentioned on the reading that in Gilligan’s perspective, women perceive the fraternity or the value of equalities most easily.

In the reading, Baier also mentioned about the two perspectives on moral and social issues. First perspective is the justice perspective. As I’ve said earlier, we must have a great importance to justice and we should have time for it and must learn to value justice. Second is the care perspective, the reading mentioned that many of the male philosophers have contributions on care perspective such as Laurence Thomas, Lawrence Blum and Michael Stucker.

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