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Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care
Tronto, Joan C. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Why this matters here
Tronto’s Moral Boundaries treats care as political and social life grounded in interdependence—humans give and receive care throughout life, not as a private exception to independence. The World We Make Together extends that claim against the fiction of the self-sufficient person: independence exists only because dependence has been hidden, and “uniquely caring” praise can become an extraction system.
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