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Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics
Moral Understandings A Feminist Study in Ethics Author:Margaret Urban Walker I oral Understandings perceives morality as practices of responsibility that express our identities, values and connections to others. Morality is a collaborative effort in that we reproduce or shift our moral understandings together in many daily interactions of social life. But not everyone has the same power to set or change moral terms, nor... more » can moral identities be separated from social ones in particular ways of life. Margaret Urban Walker argues for an empirically informed and politically critical ethics that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social differences. I oral Understandings challenges the sometimes uncritical assumptions about what we are in a position to know and whom we are in a position to speak for.« less