 When someone acts in a caring way because that person naturally cares for another, the caring is not ethical caring (1984, 79-80).Noddings' claims that ethical caring is based on, and so dependent on, natural caring (1984, 83, 206 fn 4).It is through experiencing others caring for them and naturally caring for others that people build what is called an "ethical ideal", an image of the kind of person they want to be.