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Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement,
perception, and emotion that make human beings capable of moral
action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich
moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions
about mind, feeling, and action in contexts of social difference
and unequal power and opportunity. These essays by a distinguished
international cast of philosophers explore moral psychology as it
connects to social life, scientific studies, and literature.
Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the
distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in
aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics
and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences,
practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and
dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's
aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that
has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far
failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older
women, even when emphasizing other dimensions of 'difference.'
Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly,
while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating
personal and social change.
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. 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.
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is
as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a
moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or
base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and
circumstance that make for good relations between family members,
friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of
conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be
directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in
particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and
Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten
timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance
of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's
common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning
soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and
agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and
other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is
as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a
moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or
base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and
circumstance that make for good relations between family members,
friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of
conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be
directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in
particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and
Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten
timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance
of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's
common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning
soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and
agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and
other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how
health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give
up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral
theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially
inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of
idealizations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in
ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished
and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular
people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional
environments. The essays in this collection examine the variety of
embodied experiences of individual people. They situate the
bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously
the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and
explore a number of the many different kinds of power relations
that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to
help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals,
disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health
professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.
Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how
health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give
up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral
theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially
inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of
idealizations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in
ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished
and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular
people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional
environments. The essays in this collection examine the variety of
embodied experiences of individual people. They situate the
bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously
the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and
explore a number of the many different kinds of power relations
that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to
help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals,
disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health
professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.
Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses
to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative
expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards
and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic
examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to
analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must
be done to repair the damage. Focusing on victims of wrong, their
right to validation, and their sense of justice, Walker presents a
unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust,
resentment, forgiveness, and making amends - the emotions and
practices that sustain moral relations. Moral Repair joins a
multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and
restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity
and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs.
Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses
to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative
expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards
and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic
examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to
analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must
be done to repair the damage. Focusing on victims of wrong, their
right to validation, and their sense of justice, Walker presents a
unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust,
resentment, forgiveness, and making amends - the emotions and
practices that sustain moral relations. Moral Repair joins a
multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and
restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity
and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs.
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