PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moral Agency, Universalizability, Dualism
8 Apr 2015
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Moral understandings: alternative epistemology for a feminist ethics. Why does walker think we need an alternative. As walker says, philosophical ethics, as a cultural product, has been until recently almost entirely a product of some man"s thinking . Walker is trying to get us to think about these things, this isn"t something that we can just brush aside . Walker says it"s safe to assume that who you are is going to play a significant role in how you think about morality. Universalist tradition feminist philosophers ask us to look at what kinds of traditions have arisen from the problematic way of thinking. Reason, is associated with men, and emotion is associated. Rationality is associated with men, and irrationality is associated with women. Knowledge is associated with men, while instinct is associated with women. by women. Walker says that such thinking is going to encourage association of limits!
