ISBN:
9781402068409
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
170
Keywords:
Developmental psychology
;
Ethics
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Political science Philosophy
;
Entwicklungspsychologie
;
Ethik
;
Philosophie
;
Politische Wissenschaft
Abstract:
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still allowing the essays to be diverse enough to constitute a representation of current work in the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy. Each of the essays either serves as an instance of work that is rooted in actual, non-ideal conditions, and that, as such, is able to consider any of the many questions relevant to subordinated people, or reflects theoretically on the significance of non-idealizing as an approach to feminist ethics or social and political philosophy. The volume will be of interest to feminist scholars from all disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, and to an educated popular audience as well.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; 4.0 Feminist Ethics and Feminist Social and Political Philosophy; 4.1 Theorizing the Non-Ideal; 4.2 Preview of the Essays; 4.3 Notes; References; Part I Feminist Theorizations of Ethics and Politics, and of the Ideal and Non-ideal; 1 Normativity, Feminism, and Politics; 1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; Notes; References; 2 Ethical Reasons and Political Commitments; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Political Commitment and Ethical Reasons; 2.3 Political Commitment and Ideal Theory; 2.3.1 Normative Priority; 2.3.2 Fungibility; 2.4 Justification
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5 Conclusion2.6 Notes; References; 3 Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory; 3.1 Eudaimonism, Idealized and Non-Idealized; 3.2 The Rejection of Eudaimonism; 3.3 Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory; 3.4 Notes; References; 4 LImagination au Pouvoir: Comparing John Rawlss Method of Ideal Theory with Iris Marion Youngs Method of Critical Theory; 4.1 Rawlss Method of Ideal Theory; 4.2 Youngs Method of Critical Theory; 4.3 Some Advantages of Youngs Critical Method; 4.4 The Limits of Method or Limagination au Pouvoir; 4.5 Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Critiquing Idealized Characterizations of Personhood5 Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation; 5.1 Conjoined Twins; 5.2 The Issue of Separation; 5.3 The History of Metaphysical Assumptions About Conjoined Twins; 5.4 Embodied Personhood in Singletons, Non-Conjoined Twins, and Conjoined Twins; 5.5 Some Conclusions; 5.6 Notes; References; 6 The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Critique; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Critical Theory and the Stages of Existence; 6.3 Critical Theory and Spiritual Inwardness; 6.4 Conclusion; 6.5 Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Challenge of Care to Idealizing Theories of Distributive Justice7.1 Introduction: People We Meet and Egalitarian Theories of Distributive Justice; 7.2 Care as a Form of Luck; 7.3 Sources of Failed Care; 7.4 Improving Care: Towards Equal Access and Better Quality; 7.5 The Limits to Redistributing Care; 7.6 Conclusions: The Ethics of Care Illuminates the Limits of Ideal Theories of Justice; 7.7 Notes; References; 8 The Ethics of Philosophizing: Ideal Theory and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 An Ethics of Care as a Naturalized Ethics
Description / Table of Contents:
8.3 Problematic Inclusion and Effective Exclusion from the Moral Community8.3.1 Singer's Arguments; 8.3.2 Jeff McMahan's Arguments; 8.4 The Ethics of Philosophizing and the Best Practices of Ethical Thinking; 8.4.1 The Practice of Epistemic Responsibility: Know the Subject that you are Using to Make a Philosophical Point; 8.4.2 Epistemic Modesty: Know What You Don't Know; 8.4.3 Humility: Resist the Arrogant Imposition of Your Own Values; 8.4.4 Accountability: Attend to the Consequences of Your Philosophizing; 8.5 Concluding Remarks: Ethical Best Practices; 8.6 Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Remaking the Moral and Political Subject
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-6841-6
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