Moral Contexts

by Walker, Margaret Urban

• ISBN13: 9780742513785
• ISBN10: 0742513785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Margaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice, and the Public Sphere in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: The Place of Moral Thinking	xi
Part One: Contexts Absent or Ignored
Moral Particularity	3	(18)
Moral Luck and the Virtues of Impure Agency	21	(14)
Partial Consideration	35	(22)
Part Two: Feminism as Theory and Context
What Does the Different Voice Say? Gilligan's Women and Moral Philosophy	57	(14)
Moral Understandings: Alternative ``Epistemology'' for a Feminist Ethics	71	(14)
Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory	85	(18)
Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics	103	(14)
Some Thoughts on Feminists, Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophy	117	(6)
Part Three: Institutional and Social Contexts
Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting	123	(18)
Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition	141	(24)
Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What ``We'' Know in Ethics	165	(24)
Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life as a Career	189	(18)
Part Four: The ``Human'' Context
Human Conditions	207	(16)
Index	223	(6)
About the Author	229