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Challenges to Ethical Theorizing: Feminist Ethics and Virtue Ethics

Challenges to Ethical Theorizing: Feminist Ethics and Virtue Ethics. Instead of discussing morality in terms of acts or judgments based on rules or principles, we should focus on maintaining personal relationships or developing a good character. Gender and Morality. Wollstonecraft.

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Challenges to Ethical Theorizing: Feminist Ethics and Virtue Ethics

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  1. Challenges to Ethical Theorizing: Feminist Ethics and Virtue Ethics Instead of discussing morality in terms of acts or judgments based on rules or principles, we should focus on maintaining personal relationships or developing a good character

  2. Gender and Morality Wollstonecraft Carol Gilligan • Women can be as rational about morality as men if they receive a comparable education • Morality is not about abstract principles, individual rights, equality, or impartial (typically male) theories of justice,but about caring for persons in specific situations and maintaining relationships

  3. Virtue Ethics Aristotle • Morality requires developing habits that promote human excellence (and happiness) • To be virtuous means being rational, sensitive to the social and personal dimensions of life • Rational actions are not based on abstract principles but on moderation (golden mean) • Virtue is linked to intentions, which are in turn intelligible only within a unified personal and communal narrative MacIntyre

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