Moral Contexts

Name: Moral Contexts
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ISBN: 9780742513792

ISBN-10: 0742513793

ISBN-13: 9780742513792

Edition: 2002

Authors: Margaret Urban Walker

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To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Place of Moral Thinking



Contexts Absent or Ignored



Moral Particularity



Moral Luck and the Virtues of Impure Agency



Partial Consideration



Feminism as Theory and Context



What Does the Different Voice Say? Gilligan's Women and Moral Philosophy



Moral Understandings: Alternative "Epistemology" for a Feminist Ethics



Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory



Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics



Some Thoughts on Feminists, Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophy



Institutional and Social Contexts



Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting



Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition



Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What "We" Know in Ethics



Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life as a Career



The "Human" Context



Human Conditions


Index


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