Module 9 Feminist Flashcards
It attempts to revise, reformulate, and reevaluate the different conceptions of morality in traditional ethical theories
Feminist Ethics
It aims to address and correct biases that are considered present in the traditional, male-dominated ethics
Feminist Ethics
Five challenges that feminist ethics aims to address
a. lack of concern for women’s interest
b. neglect of women’s issues
c. denial of women’s agency
d. depreciation of women’s value
e. devaluation of women’s moral experience
Where and who stated that women’s moral development may differ from men’s and how traditional ethics do not account for this difference
Carol Giligan’s Ethics of Care
It is thus inseparable from women’s moral strength, an overriding concern with relationships and responsibilities.
Women’s moral Weekness
Who and where it demonstrated a version of ethics of care that heavily revolves around “human caring and the memory of caring and being cared for”
Nel Noddings’ Ethics of Care
Two types of caring:
Natural caring
Ethical caring
what are the central features of care ethics?
- meeting the needs of people
- values emotion
- ethics of care respects diversity of claims
- reconceptualize the notion of the public and the private
- sees people as relational and interdependent