Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: by Bat-Ami Bar On (auth.), Lisa Tessman (eds.)

By Bat-Ami Bar On (auth.), Lisa Tessman (eds.)

Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a set of feminist essays that self-consciously advance non-idealizing methods to both ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked via a bent to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the amount, whereas nonetheless permitting the essays to be diversified adequate to represent a illustration of present paintings within the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy.

Each of the essays both serves for instance of labor that's rooted in real, non-ideal stipulations, and that, as such, is ready to think of any of the numerous questions correct to subordinated humans; or displays theoretically at the value of non-idealizing as an method of feminist ethics or social and political philosophy.

The quantity may be of curiosity to feminist students from all disciplines, to teachers who're ethicists and political philosophers in addition to to graduate students.

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First, ideal moral theories do not explain the normative priority that agents give to politically committed ethical reasons. Their profound effect on a politically committed agent’s ethical deliberation and choice and the precedence they are given over other ends cannot be wholly understood through the moral obligations within ideal theories. Second, although politically committed reasons are valuable in ideal theory for the benefits they bring to others, they are not fungible with other reasons ideal theory would regard as having equal ethical value.

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