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    Moral obligations arise from particular relationships and... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We must act only on maxims that can be universal laws.

    Moral obligations arise from particular relationships and concrete contexts, not universalizable abstractions (Noddings, Held).

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    • 1.Moral understanding emerges from lived experience in relationships, not abstract reasoning divorced from human particularity.
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    • 2.Universal rules fail to capture morally relevant differences between contexts—a parent's duty to their child differs from duty to strangers.
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    • 3.Care ethics explains moral motivation better than duty: we act morally because we're attuned to specific others' needs, not abstract principles.
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    • 1.If morality is purely relational, it cannot condemn practices like slavery or genocide simply because they occur within particular communities.
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    • 2.Contextual approaches risk enabling partiality and favoritism; some obligations (e.g., not torturing innocents) must transcend relationships.
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    • 3.Particular relationships themselves rely on universalizable principles (consent, reciprocity, fairness) to function as moral relationships at all.
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