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Partial Reason Critical and Constructive Transformations of Ethics and Epistemology
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Sally E. Talbot
Book Code: GM1273
ISBN: 0-313-31273-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31273-1
248 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Philosophy
Series Number: 78
Description: Traditionally the ethic of care has been associated with women while the ethic of justice has been associated with men. In recent years some feminist philosophers have turned their energies to developing theories of care and to exploring the epistemological assumptions on which the ethic of care is based. This volume proposes an original theory of care, building on insights of both feminist and non-feminist critics of liberal moral theory, gleaning ideas from feminist ethics and epistemologies, and stimulated by the writings of post-colonial feminists. The author shows that a number of ethical and epistemological imperatives can be defined through the philosophical elaboration of an ethic of care and the endeavor to know and to care well. Can the actual experienced practices of caring and the abstract conceptual thought process of philosophy be mutually informing? The author argues that the concrete everyday response of care provides the grounds for new ways of thinking about both ethics and reason. By examining the works of Kant, Mill, and Rawls, she describes and defends a radical critique of the liberal moral theory of Gilligan and Noddings and a transformed ethic of care, accounting for care as both action and disposition. This vigorous study will have applications in the fields of sociology, ethics, moral and political philosophy, political science, nursing, medicine, and education. A comprehensive and up-to-date Bibliography provides readers with excellent resources for further study.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • People Standing Alone: A Critique of Liberal Moral Theory
  • A Necessary Corrective? Responses that Fill the Gaps
  • Theorizing Connection as Primary: Understandings of Selves-in-Relation
  • Seeing Together: Care as Disposition
  • Understanding Partiality: Problematizing Conceptions of Knowledge and Knowing
  • Partial Reason: The Epistemological Imperatives of Partiality
  • Care: The Ethical Imperatives of Partiality
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-088622
LCC Class: BJ1475
Dewey Class: 170
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