Unit 7
Alasdair MacIntyre and Nel Noddings (Twentieth Century)

Learning Objectives

When you have completed Unit 7, you should be able to

1. describe and explain Alasdair MacIntyre’s communitarian ethics.
2. describe and explain Nel Noddings’s feminist ethics of care.
3. classify each theorist according to the distinctions presented in Unit 1.
4. assess each position for strengths and weaknesses and describe similarities and differences with theories in Part One and with theories in Part Two.