Introduction

The introduction outlines how this volume expands our intellectual understanding of care and the ethics of care. It discusses how the contributors engage in dialogue about care and its associated interpersonal and social dimensions. First, they examine care through a cross-cultural lens, illuminating its rich potential through interactions with Chinese and Japanese philosophies (Part I). Second, they address cross-field dialogues, building connections between the ethics of care, epistemology, and virtue theory (Part II), and further expand the discussion to include practical perspectives from enactivism, clinical ethics, and the philosophy of education (Part III). The chapter adumbrates how these fresh perspectives can lead to the divergent possibilities of theorizing care and its associated phenomena.