A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

✍ Scribed by Sandrine Berges (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 207
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics....Pages 1-9
Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side....Pages 10-32
Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas and the Communal Life....Pages 33-58
The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in Christine de Pizan’s Fortress and in Fifteenth-Century Public Life....Pages 59-83
Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment....Pages 84-108
Care as Virtue....Pages 109-128
Care, Gender and the Public Life....Pages 129-149
Care and Global Justice....Pages 150-168
Looking Back and the Way Ahead....Pages 169-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-199

✦ Subjects

Feminism; Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Medicine/Public Health, general; History of Philosophy

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