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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948- author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist ethics.

Feminism.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages).

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Feminist study in ethics

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in "practices of responsibility" that express our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned ways. Thus ethical theory needs to be empirically informed and politically critical to avoid reiterating forms of socially entrenched bias. Responsible ethical theory should reveal and question the moral significance of social differences. The book engages with, and challenges, the work of contemporary analytic philosophers in ethics. Moral Understandings has been influential in reaching a global audience in ethics and feminist philosophy, as well as in tangential fields like nursing ethics; research ethics; disability ethics; environmental ethics, and social and political theory. This revised edition contains a new preface, a substantive postscript to Chapter 1 about "the subject of moral philosophy"; the addition of a new chapter on the importance of emotion in practices of responsibility; and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.

Contents:

The Mise en scene : moral philosophy now

The subject of moral philosophy, with postscript 2007

Where do moral theories come from? Henry Sidgwick and twentieth-century ethics

Clearer views : an expressive-collaborative model

Authority and transparency : the example of feminist skepticism

Charting responsibilities : from established coordinates to Terra Incognita

Self- (and other) portraits : who are we, and how do we know?

Picking up pieces : lives, stories, and integrity

Career selves : plans, projects, and plots in "whole life ethics"

Made a slave, born a woman : knowing others' places

Unnecessary identities : representational practices and moral recognition

Testing sight lines

The politics of transparency and the moral work of truth

Peripheral visions, critical practice

Some questions about Moral understandings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-298)and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-988629-6

0-19-987205-8

9786611163921

0-19-972735-X

1-281-16392-9

1-4356-2020-8

OCLC:

922953610