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Moral Understandings - A Feminist Study in Ethics (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Moral Understandings - A Feminist Study in Ethics (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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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.
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