Ashok Kumar
Ethic of care and kindness For urban India at 75 - Vol.19(2), Apr-June - New Delhi Institute of Town Planners 2022 - 1-11p.
Longing for sustainable urbanization is naturally a laudable goal. Currently, Goal-11
and Goal-6 of the SDGs are designed to fulfil this aspiration. However, longing is not
a sufficient condition for the achievement sustainable urbanization. Longing is like an
ideal, which remains unfilled without concerted efforts, and is different from actual
achievements. Longing is like compassion, which does show caring attitude of a person
to assuage the suffering of the other person or group but does not involve appropriate
actions to actually alleviate the suffering. In contrast to compassion, kindness involves
actions undertaken to alleviate the suffering. Compassion and kindness, both are
foundational to the ethics of care. This paper proposes that city planning should move
from the ethics of justice to the ethics of care because ‘the ethics of care’ directly
alleviates the suffering and vulnerabilities caused by unsustainable urbanization of the
interconnected world.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Ethic of care and kindness For urban India at 75 - Vol.19(2), Apr-June - New Delhi Institute of Town Planners 2022 - 1-11p.
Longing for sustainable urbanization is naturally a laudable goal. Currently, Goal-11
and Goal-6 of the SDGs are designed to fulfil this aspiration. However, longing is not
a sufficient condition for the achievement sustainable urbanization. Longing is like an
ideal, which remains unfilled without concerted efforts, and is different from actual
achievements. Longing is like compassion, which does show caring attitude of a person
to assuage the suffering of the other person or group but does not involve appropriate
actions to actually alleviate the suffering. In contrast to compassion, kindness involves
actions undertaken to alleviate the suffering. Compassion and kindness, both are
foundational to the ethics of care. This paper proposes that city planning should move
from the ethics of justice to the ethics of care because ‘the ethics of care’ directly
alleviates the suffering and vulnerabilities caused by unsustainable urbanization of the
interconnected world.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)