Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and
provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory
and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused
primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she addresses
the ways in which devastating conditions confronted by these selves
both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their
possibilities of flourishing. She describes two different forms of
"moral trouble" prevalent under oppression. The first is that the
oppressed self may be morally damaged, prevented from developing or
exercising some of the virtues; the second is that the very
conditions of oppression require the oppressed to develop a set of
virtues that carry a moral cost to those who practice them--traits
that Tessman refers to as "burdened virtues." These virtues have
the unusual feature of being disjoined from their bearer's own well
being.
Tessman's work focuses on issues that have been missed by many
feminist moral theories, and her use of the virtue ethics framework
brings feminist concerns more closely into contact with mainstream
ethical theory. This book will appeal to feminist theorists in
philosophy and women's studies, but also more broadly, ethicists
and social theorists.
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