PHIL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
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The post-conventional level is the highest form of moral development and earlier stages are morally inferior. Carol gilligan noticed an odd implication of kohlberg"s research. It seemed to show that women were less morally developed than man. Gilligan argued that kohlberg"s work was based on a false normative assumption. He assumed thinking about general moral principles is highest the stage of development. Gilligan argues that is how most men think about morality, but women tend to think more about personal relationships. Women tend to use an ethics of care, while men use an ethics of justice. Criticism of the justice perspective: we need positive liberty in order to use negative liberty. Traits of an ethics of care: pluralistic- it does not attempt to reduce value to a single characteristic, contextualist- does not aspire to complete impartiality.
