Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in by Margaret Urban Walker

By Margaret Urban Walker

it is a revised variation of Walker's recognized booklet in feminist ethics first released in 1997. Walker's booklet proposes a view of morality and an method of moral thought which makes use of the serious insights of feminism and race conception to reconsider the epistemological and ethical place of the moral theorist, and the way ethical thought is inescapably formed by means of tradition and heritage. the most gist of her e-book is that morality is embodied in "practices of accountability" that specific our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned methods. hence moral idea has to be empirically trained and politically serious to prevent reiterating kinds of socially entrenched bias. liable moral idea should still display and query the ethical importance of social transformations. The e-book engages with, and demanding situations, the paintings of up to date analytic philosophers in ethics.

Moral Understandings has been influential in attaining a world viewers in ethics and feminist philosophy, in addition to in tangential fields like nursing ethics; study ethics; incapacity ethics; environmental ethics, and social and political conception. This revised variation encompasses a new preface, a major postscript to bankruptcy 1 approximately "the topic of ethical philosophy"; the addition of a brand new bankruptcy at the value of emotion in practices of accountability; and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.

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