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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsIntroduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics: Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s... [Halfway through a big city marathon, you overhear a conversation between a man and a woman. The woman asks, “How long have we been running?” The man replies, “About 15 minutes.” Surprised, you look at the person who’s been running alongside the two speakers since the beginning and whom you assumed was their friend. His face registers no surprise or dissent. The three of them smile at each other encouragingly. Deciding that something must be going on below the surface, you say nothing. Later on, you find out that the woman who has been lied to, Gwen, suffers from short-term memory loss, caused by complications during a brain tumour-removal operation. Looking for ways of making her new, short-term-memory-less life as fruitful as possible, she has set herself the challenge of completing a marathon. She has asked her partner to use the fact that she cannot remember the start to help motivate her to keep going. Completing the race will boost her confidence in her ability to go on despite her loss.1 The friend who is running with them not only tolerates the lie but actively protects it; by acting perfectly normal around it, he creates a buffer between the public and the couple. Had he not been there, you might well have been tempted to react differently. You might have worried that Gwen was being tricked, somehow, that she was being made to run more than she should, that perhaps she had been drugged and should not be running at all.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsIntroduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics

Berges, Sandrine
Springer Journals — Oct 10, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
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978-1-349-43930-0
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1 –9
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10.1057/9781137026644_1
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Abstract

[Halfway through a big city marathon, you overhear a conversation between a man and a woman. The woman asks, “How long have we been running?” The man replies, “About 15 minutes.” Surprised, you look at the person who’s been running alongside the two speakers since the beginning and whom you assumed was their friend. His face registers no surprise or dissent. The three of them smile at each other encouragingly. Deciding that something must be going on below the surface, you say nothing. Later on, you find out that the woman who has been lied to, Gwen, suffers from short-term memory loss, caused by complications during a brain tumour-removal operation. Looking for ways of making her new, short-term-memory-less life as fruitful as possible, she has set herself the challenge of completing a marathon. She has asked her partner to use the fact that she cannot remember the start to help motivate her to keep going. Completing the race will boost her confidence in her ability to go on despite her loss.1 The friend who is running with them not only tolerates the lie but actively protects it; by acting perfectly normal around it, he creates a buffer between the public and the couple. Had he not been there, you might well have been tempted to react differently. You might have worried that Gwen was being tricked, somehow, that she was being made to run more than she should, that perhaps she had been drugged and should not be running at all.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Good Life; Virtue Ethic; Moral Philosophy; Moral Theorise; Ethical Judgment

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