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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsCare as Virtue

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics: Care as Virtue [In the first half of this book I sought to establish that there had been a number of moral and political texts in philosophy by women authors who, throughout the centuries, examined and embraced virtue ethics at various stages of its development. The second half of this book is dedicated to finding out whether this feminist history of virtue ethics could have any bearing on contemporary feminist philosophy. I chose to focus on care-based approaches to feminist ethics rather than, say, liberal or radical approaches because it struck me that one could more successfully argue that they were a continuation of the sort of virtue-ethical approaches I presented in part 1. However, care ethicists have at times wished to disassociate themselves from Aristotelian ethics; so it may seem strange that I decided to devote most of the content of the coming chapters to the ethics of care. What’s more, care ethicists may be suspicious of claiming any sort of historical roots for their views. The point of an ethics of care is that it begins the history of philosophy, from a women’s perspective, on a fresh page. As the history of philosophy is mostly male, it is understandable for the proponents of care ethics not to want to get mixed up in it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsCare as Virtue

Berges, Sandrine
Springer Journals — Oct 10, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-43930-0
Pages
109 –128
DOI
10.1057/9781137026644_6
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[In the first half of this book I sought to establish that there had been a number of moral and political texts in philosophy by women authors who, throughout the centuries, examined and embraced virtue ethics at various stages of its development. The second half of this book is dedicated to finding out whether this feminist history of virtue ethics could have any bearing on contemporary feminist philosophy. I chose to focus on care-based approaches to feminist ethics rather than, say, liberal or radical approaches because it struck me that one could more successfully argue that they were a continuation of the sort of virtue-ethical approaches I presented in part 1. However, care ethicists have at times wished to disassociate themselves from Aristotelian ethics; so it may seem strange that I decided to devote most of the content of the coming chapters to the ethics of care. What’s more, care ethicists may be suspicious of claiming any sort of historical roots for their views. The point of an ethics of care is that it begins the history of philosophy, from a women’s perspective, on a fresh page. As the history of philosophy is mostly male, it is understandable for the proponents of care ethics not to want to get mixed up in it.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Virtue Ethic; Ethical Theory; Care Ethic; Feminist Perspective; Historical Root

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