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Moral Contexts

Feminist Constructions

von: Margaret Urban Walker
36,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	23.11.2002
ISBN/EAN:	9781461609445
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	248

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Titelbeschreibung

Many contexts shape and limit moral thinking in philosophy and life. Human conditions of vulnerability and interdependency, of limited awareness and control, of imperfect insight into ourselves and others are inevitable contexts that neither moral thought nor theory should forget. To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. This collection of essays by Margaret Urban Walker seek to show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Contingent and changeable contexts that shape moral thinking include our individual histories, our social positions, and institutional roles, relationships, cultural settings, and social arrangements, and the specific moral idioms we pick up along the way. The paradigms and specialized language of ethical theory are contexts, too; they shape how moral theory looks and what or whom it looks at. Ethical theory and practice are meaningless without these Moral Contexts.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Place of Moral Thinking
 Part 2 Part One: Concepts Absent or Ignored
 Chapter 3 Moral Particularity
 Chapter 4 Moral Luck and the Virtues of Impure Agency
 Chapter 5 Partial Consideration
 Part 6 Part Two: Feminism as Theory and Context
 Chapter 7 What Does the Different Voice Say? Gilligan's Women and Moral Philosophy
 Chapter 8 Moral Understandings: Alternative 'Epistemology' for a Feminist Ethics
 Chapter 9 Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory
 Chapter 10 Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics
 Chapter 11 Some Thoughts on Feminists, Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophy
 Part 12 Part Three: Institutional and Social Contexts
 Chapter 13 Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting
 Chapter 14 Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition
 Chapter 15 Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What 'We' Know in Ethics
 Chapter 16 Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life as a Career
 Part 17 Part Four: The 'Human' Context
 Chapter 18 Human Conditions

Autorenportrait

Margaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice, and the Public Sphere in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. She is the editor of Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).