Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics

This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in "practices of responsibility" that express our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned ways. Thus ethical theory needs to be empirically informed and politically critical to avoid reiterating forms of socially entrenched bias. Responsible ethical theory should reveal and question the moral significance of social differences. The book engages with, and challenges, the work of contemporary analytic philosophers in ethics.


Author: Margaret Urban Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/13/2007
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.25w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780195315400
ISBN10: 0195315405
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory

About the Author

Margaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She is author of Moral Contexts and Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations After Wrongdoing, and editor of Mother Time: Women, Aging and Ethics and Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, with Peggy DesAutels.

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