Feminist Ethics

Feminist Ethics

Instructions:

What additional perspectives do women bring to our understanding of ethics? How might attention to these concerns alter our conception of virtue? Can feminist insights be incorporated effectively at the level of individual decision making, or does their impact require fundamental changes in the social and political environment?

One productive direction for our discourse in this discussion might be to look for ways in which feminist ethics fits with the traditional normative theories. Can we use old categories of thinking to express our recognition of new ideas?

Additional Instructions:

Create a 1 page essay in APA format. Use 2 scholarly sources as references. (1 source will be given to you in this assignment). Be sure to use in-text citations.

Source given to use: Abel, D. C. (2010). Fifty readings plus: An introduction to philosophy (2nd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

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According to Harvard psychologist, Carol Gilligan the alterations in ethic perception are linked to gender i.e., men and women have diverse though parallel ways of ethical development which tip them to form their moral decisions established on different standards. According to Gillian, most men base their moral choices on doctrines of fairness,

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