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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsRevolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics: Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of... [Genevieve Lloyd, in The Man of Reason, took issue with the idea that the Enlightenment’s portrait of reason as the engine of human progress is universal; rather, she says, very much like every portrait of reason from the Renaissance onwards, what the Enlightenment produced belonged to a fundamentally patriarchal framework. Reason, she says, is presented as neutral but is in fact always male, dominated by hard science and matter and excluding anything to do with emotions and human relationships.1 Moreover, by making the public space crucial to the attainment of intellectual and political maturity, the thinkers of the Enlightenment seemed to exclude those who did not have access to the sort of education they recommended, whose living space, far from being public, was limited to the home and whose companions were children and other homeworkers. “Man” was put on a pedestal, revered for his ability to reform using his reason, and “woman” was left at home.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue EthicsRevolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment

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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84 –108
DOI
10.1057/9781137026644_5
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Abstract

[Genevieve Lloyd, in The Man of Reason, took issue with the idea that the Enlightenment’s portrait of reason as the engine of human progress is universal; rather, she says, very much like every portrait of reason from the Renaissance onwards, what the Enlightenment produced belonged to a fundamentally patriarchal framework. Reason, she says, is presented as neutral but is in fact always male, dominated by hard science and matter and excluding anything to do with emotions and human relationships.1 Moreover, by making the public space crucial to the attainment of intellectual and political maturity, the thinkers of the Enlightenment seemed to exclude those who did not have access to the sort of education they recommended, whose living space, far from being public, was limited to the home and whose companions were children and other homeworkers. “Man” was put on a pedestal, revered for his ability to reform using his reason, and “woman” was left at home.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Virtue Ethic; Feminist Perspective; Moral Sentiment; Arbitrary Power

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