PHIL 1550 Lecture 3: Globalizing Feminist Ethics
19 Apr 2016
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Jagger wants to know if there is a way to have a dialogue within a globalized community. This dialogue requires a double commitment: toward open, democratic discussion, while being attentive to inequalities among those who are part of the dialogue. This is an especially pressing concern because feminists as women: are frequently taken as emblems of cultural integrity (7, while often bearing the brunt of globalized and economic change (7; 25) inclusiveness. The tradition of moral value, she argues, affirms the values of discursive equality, openness, an. However, it treats these values as ideals, often detached from their concrete application. Feminist ethics addresses directly issue of discursive equality and openness in situations inevitably. These differences in power can include: structured by power (8: differences between western (that is, european and north american) feminism and nonwestern feminism, differences between academic and nonacademic viewpoints, different goals of closed groups and open debates. It"s a question of who counts as a speaker (11)
