Rationality of Caring

Kari Wærness already worked out a rationality of caring early on: “the ability to care in a ‘proper’ way, depends on something which can be learned and for which there are rules for proceeding, and that therefore some kind of rationality is involved” (Wærness 1984: 195). Since then, the concept of care or caring rationality developed by her has been used and further developed many times to make clear that rationality and the sense of responsibility associated with care are not in opposition to each other, but that different, quite individual rationalities are connected with caring activities (cf. are associated with care activities (cf. Wærness 2000).