9780195315394-0195315391-Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

ISBN-13: 9780195315394
ISBN-10: 0195315391
Edition: 2
Author: Margaret Urban Walker
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780195315394
ISBN-10: 0195315391
Edition: 2
Author: Margaret Urban Walker
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages

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Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) (ISBN-13: 9780195315394 and ISBN-10: 0195315391), written by authors Margaret Urban Walker, was published by Oxford University Press in 2007. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

Moral Understandings has been influential in reaching a global audience in ethics and feminist philosophy, as well as in tangential fields like nursing ethics; research ethics; disability ethics; environmental ethics, and social and political theory. This revised edition contains a new preface, a substantive postscript to Chapter 1 about "the subject of moral philosophy"; the addition of a new chapter on the importance of emotion in practices of responsibility; and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.

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