 Margaret Little argues that the motive of care plays a significant role in moral epistemology: it is essential for seeing the moral landscape, that is, for knowing what is morally called for in a given situation, and for getting us to moral truths (Little 2007). Little shares the same suspicion as the feminists cited above that care has been assigned a “lesser” role than reason because of its historical association with women. Little argues that when we care about a person, we have the right background disposition for morally relevant features to come into our consciousness. Caring makes us receptive to the particularities of a person, enables us to listen to their narrative, and makes us respect the person as a responsible subject. Only when we are so disposed do we know what is morally called for—caring about persons enables us to pick up on what is morally salient (424–25). Those who have merely an intellectual comprehension of the moral landscape but never respond appropriately have a clouded perception, much like a person who uses the term “green” correctly but has never seen the color and so lacks the concept of “green” (427). Little argues that the moral case is even worse than the color case because those who lack the appropriate emotions will not get morality right. Such is the case with the person who sees that certain things are painful and knows what pain is, yet does not see pain as evil. This person does not get morality right because, first, nonmoral terms cannot completely explain morality (e.g., they cannot explain the difference in the cruelty of kicking a dog, taunting someone verbally, and forgetting to invite the neighbor’s child to one’s daughter’s birthday party) (428). A second reason is that whether a feature plays a role in determining an act’s moral status is dependent, in a way that cannot be codified, on other relevant features. For instance, an act’s being fun may be a reason to do it, but it is also a feature that makes hunting animals morally problematic (428). Little concludes that affect, particularly care for persons, is a necessary component of apprehending moral properties themselves, contrary to traditional accounts, according to which moral knowledge is acquired strictly by reason whose verdicts are passed on to motivation which in turn issues in the appropriate response (420, 428).