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Burdened virtues : virtue ethics for liberatory struggles / Lisa Tessman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tessman, Lisa, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Studies in feminist philosophy.
- Studies in feminist philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtues.
- Ethics.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Women.
- Feminist ethics.
- Oppression (Psychology).
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Virtue ethics for liberatory struggles
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This deeply original and provocative work looks at the concerns of traditional feminist scholarship from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Her subject is the moral life and the self under duress - how human beings exercise their moral agency within the constraints of oppressive social structures.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Moral Trouble
- 1. Regretting the Self One Is
- 2. The Damage of Moral Damage
- 3. The Ordinary Vices of Domination
- 4. Between Indifference and Anguish
- 5. The Burden of Political Resistance
- 6. Dangerous Loyalties
- Conclusion: Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics under Adversity
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-517915-3
- 1-281-19713-0
- 9786611197131
- 0-19-803982-4
- 1-4237-3490-4
- OCLC:
- 922952452
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