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Moral understandings : a feminist study in ethics /​ Margaret Urban Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1998.Description: xiii, 215 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0415914213 (pbk.)
  • 9780415914215
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.82 21
Contents:
Pt. 1. The Mise-en-scene: Moral Philosophy Now. 1. The Subject of Moral Philosophy. 2. Where Do Moral Theories Come From? Henry Sidgwick and Twentieth-Century Ethics Pt. 2. Clearer Views: An Expressive-Collaborative Model. 3. Authority and Transparency: The Example of Feminist Skepticism. 4. Charting Responsibilities: From Established Coordinates to Terra Incognita Pt. 3. Self- (and Other) Portraits: Who Are We, and How Do We Know? 5. Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity. 6. Career Selves: Plans, Projects, and Plots in "Whole" Life Ethics. 7. Made a Slave, Born a Woman: Knowing Others' Places. 8. Unnecessary Identities: Representational Practices and Moral Recognition Pt. 4. Testing Sight Lines. 9. Peripheral Visions, Critical Practice.
Summary: Morality, according to Margaret Urban Walker, is a collaborative effort in which we jointly reproduce or shift our moral understandings in countless daily interactions. But not everyone has the same power to set or change moral terms. Moral Understandings explores morality as the practice of a responsibility expressive of our identities, values, and connections to others. Walker argues for an informed and politically critical ethics that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social differences. This book effectively challenges the often uncritical assumptions about what we can know and for whom we can speak.
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ncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

Pt. 1. The Mise-en-scene: Moral Philosophy Now. 1. The Subject of Moral Philosophy. 2. Where Do Moral Theories Come From? Henry Sidgwick and Twentieth-Century Ethics Pt. 2. Clearer Views: An Expressive-Collaborative Model. 3. Authority and Transparency: The Example of Feminist Skepticism. 4. Charting Responsibilities: From Established Coordinates to Terra Incognita Pt. 3. Self- (and Other) Portraits: Who Are We, and How Do We Know? 5. Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity. 6. Career Selves: Plans, Projects, and Plots in "Whole" Life Ethics. 7. Made a Slave, Born a Woman: Knowing Others' Places. 8. Unnecessary Identities: Representational Practices and Moral Recognition Pt. 4. Testing Sight Lines. 9. Peripheral Visions, Critical Practice.

Morality, according to Margaret Urban Walker, is a collaborative effort in which we jointly reproduce or shift our moral understandings in countless daily interactions. But not everyone has the same power to set or change moral terms. Moral Understandings explores morality as the practice of a responsibility expressive of our identities, values, and connections to others. Walker argues for an informed and politically critical ethics that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social differences. This book effectively challenges the often uncritical assumptions about what we can know and for whom we can speak.

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