ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three parts. It elaborates on a view of ethics that operates in and through global social life, focusing specifically on the ethics of care, which see as representative of this broad mode of critical ethics. The chapter offers some thoughts on ethical security studies based on the ethics of care. It argues that the approach reveals the agency of the ostensive objects of security practices, and opens the door to the reflective and normative task of determining what is at stake for real beings-in-relation families, communities, small and large social groupings when they are subject to the effects of securitising discourses and practices. The moral theory of Kant and other moral theorists of Western modernity argued that moral principles are supported by broader background theories of human nature or practical reasoning'. Western liberal understandings of human security are often overtly tied to good governance, and rely on a normative account of universal human rights.
