Ethics 9

Traditional moral philosophy has been favorable to women as evidenced by the views of Rousseau and Aristotle.

Who thought that women were inferior to men morally?

Ethics of care does not tell us how we are to determine what will help or harm particular individuals.

Today feminist ethics is distinguished from an ethics of care that is sometimes called feminine ethics.

Psychologist Carol Gilligan interviewed both male and female subjects and found there was no difference in their moral reasoning.

The "third wave" of feminism addresses the problem of diversity in dealing with women's issues.

The fourth feature of the Gilligan challenge to liberal orthodoxy according to Baier is a challenge to its typical rationalism.

According to Noddings the language of ethics has primarily been the language of the

One reason why male and female morality may differ from each other is biological differences between males and females.

Carol Gilligan's research supports the research and findings of Lawrence Kohlberg.

Ethics of care argues that there is a femal moral perspective that contrasts sharply with the male moral perspective.

Some questions have been raised about the ethics of care including the idea that not all mothers are caring and nurturing.

The two parties to the relation of caring for Noddings are the "one-caring" and the "cared-for."

For Baier the best moral theory must not be a cooperative product of women and men but must primarily focus on an ethics of care.

For Baier the tradition of rights has only worked against women and not for women.

According to ethics of care, the female moral perspective takes a more universal and impartial standpoint in reasoning about what is morally good and bad.

Who argues that it is because women spend too much of their lives mothering that women develop a morality consistent with this experience?