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Responsibility Ethics, Shared Understandings, and Moral Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Claudia Card
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Abstract

Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings offers an “expressive-collaborative,” culturally situated, practice—based picture of morality, critical of a “theoretical-juridical” picture in most prefeminist moral philosophy since Henry Sidgwick. This essay compares her approach to ethics with that of John Rawls, another exemplar of the “theoretical-juridical” model, and asks how Walker's approach would apply to several ethical issues, including interaction with (other) animals, social reform and revolution, and basic human rights.

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Symposium On Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 141 - 155
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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