A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics
Title | A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | S. Berges |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 327 |
Release | 2015-03-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137026642 |
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.
Burdened Virtues
Title | Burdened Virtues PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Tessman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2005-10-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0198039824 |
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.
Feminists Doing Ethics
Title | Feminists Doing Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy DesAutels |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2001-09-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0742579964 |
Feminists Doing Ethics is the debut title in the new Rowman & Littlefield series, Feminist Constructions. In this thoughtful collection, contributors refashion essays from the international conference on feminist ethics, Feminist Ethics Revisited (October 1999), with an aim to critique social practice and develop an ethics of universal justice. The essays in this exciting volume explore the intricacies and impact of reasoned moral action, the virtues of character, and the empowering responsibility that morality generates. Feminists Doing Ethics brings to light concepts and ideas that are intended to extend our understanding of morality and of ourselves.
Speaking from the Heart
Title | Speaking from the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Rita C. Manning |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Caring |
ISBN |
Manning successfully argues that theory and ethics should once again be reunited...thorough and provocative...--THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
The Oxford Handbook of Virtue
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy E. Snow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 905 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019938519X |
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen a renaissance in the study of virtue -- a topic that has prevailed in philosophical work since the time of Aristotle. Several major developments have conspired to mark this new age. Foremost among them, some argue, is the birth of virtue ethics, an approach to ethics that focuses on virtue in place of consequentialism (the view that normative properties depend only on consequences) or deontology (the study of what we have a moral duty to do). The emergence of new virtue theories also marks this new wave of work on virtue. Put simply, these are theories about what virtue is, and they include Kantian and utilitarian virtue theories. Concurrently, virtue ethics is being applied to other fields where it hasn't been used before, including bioethics and education. In addition to these developments, the study of virtue in epistemological theories has become increasingly widespread to the point that it has spawned a subfield known as 'virtue epistemology.' This volume therefore provides a representative overview of philosophical work on virtue. It is divided into seven parts: conceptualizations of virtue, historical and religious accounts, contemporary virtue ethics and theories of virtue, central concepts and issues, critical examinations, applied virtue ethics, and virtue epistemology. Forty-two chapters by distinguished scholars offer insights and directions for further research. In addition to philosophy, authors also deal with virtues in non-western philosophical traditions, religion, and psychological perspectives on virtue.
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal
Title | Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Tessman |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2009-07-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1402068417 |
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still allowing the essays to be diverse enough to constitute a representation of current work in the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy. Each of the essays either serves as an instance of work that is rooted in actual, non-ideal conditions, and that, as such, is able to consider any of the many questions relevant to subordinated people; or reflects theoretically on the significance of non-idealizing as an approach to feminist ethics or social and political philosophy. The volume will be of interest to feminist scholars from all disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students.
The Ethics of Care
Title | The Ethics of Care PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Held |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS |
ISBN | 0195180992 |
An exploration of the moral theory examines the characteristics of the ethics of care, discussing the feminist roots of this moral approach, what is meant by "care," and the potential of the ethics of care for dealing with social issues.