This ethic, which reflects a cumu-lative knowledge of human relationships, evolves around a centralinsight, that self and other are interdependent. The different waysof thinking about this connection or the different modes of its ap-prehension mark the three perspectives and their transitionalphases. In this sequence, the fact of interconnection informs thecentral, recurring recognition that just as the incidence of violenceis in the end destructive to all, so the activity of care enhances bothothers and self.
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