Hi Everyone,

Thanks for a great discussion about care ethics today. For Tuesday, here is what I would like you to do

1) Read George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” (we originally had two reading for Tuesday but I deleted the other one because I want us to focus on Orwell’s story instead)

2) Write a brief response to this very simple prompt (no more than a page):
In “Why Care About Caring?” Nel Noddings claims that “Caring is largely reactive and responsive. Perhaps it is even better characterized as receptive. The one-caring is sufficiently engrossed in the other to listen to him and to take pleasure or pain in what he recounts” (19). How does Orwell’s story explore “reactive” and “responsive” caring? More simply, how is this a story about “caring”? (You can answer either of these or both).

That’s it. I’m reading over your essays now and should get them back to you sometime next week. They’re all great! See you on Tuesday.

Prof. Rowe