Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles

Name: Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles
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ISBN: 9780195179156

ISBN-10: 0195179153

ISBN-13: 9780195179156

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lisa Tessman

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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 underoppression. 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…

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: Moral Trouble



Regretting the Self One Is



The Damage of Moral Damage



The Ordinary Vices of Domination



Between Indifference and Anguish



The Burden of Political Resistance



Dangerous Loyalties


Conclusion: Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics under Adversity


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