Women's Voices and Ethical Ideals: Must We Mean What We Say?Women and Moral Theory. Eva Feder Kittay , Diana T. Meyers
| Autor: | Claudia Card |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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| Zdroj: | Ethics. 99:125-135 |
| ISSN: | 1539-297X 0014-1704 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/293039 |
| Popis: | "The promise in joining women and moral theory lies in the fact that human survival, in the late twentieth century, may depend less on formal agreement than on human connection." So concludes Carol Gilligan's essay opening Women and Moral Theory, a collection of sixteen papers from a spring 1985 conference at Stonybrook, New York. 1 Gilligan's book, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, has generated lively controversy over the centrality to moral development of autonomy, universality, and the appeal to principle.2 Challenging as sex biased the "justice perspective" of Freud, Piaget, and more recently, Lawrence Kohlberg, she describes a "women's voice" in morality, the "care perspective," in which the central concepts are relationship (connection), context, and responsibility or care. Women and Moral Theory is the first book-length philosophical work devoted to exploring sympathetically implications of that challenge for ethical theory. Of special interest are essays by Annette Baier comparing Gilligan's "care perspective" with Hume's ethics; Sandra Harding, who compares moral ideals of African men and Euro-American women; Michael Stocker, who compares responsibilities of duty and friendship; Sara Ruddick on world peace and "maternal thinking"; Marilyn Friedman comparing Kierkegaard's Abraham, Plato's Euthyphro, and Kohlberg's Heinz; and Diana T. Meyers and Thomas Hill, who offer contrasting views on autonomy. As the above quotation indicates, underlying Gilligan's defense of a care perspective in ethics is a fear that the justice perspective will end in nuclear |
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