Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Sandrine Berges is a feminist philosopher currently working at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey. Her publications include a guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, as well as various other pieces on the feminist history of philosophy and ancient virtue ethics. Klappentext A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present. Zusammenfassung A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics! and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction – A Historical Perspective on Women's Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics 1. Origins Revisited: on the Mother's Side  2.  Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas, and the Communal Life 3. The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in Christine de Pizan's Fortress, and in XVth Century Public Life  4. Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment  5. Care as Virtue  6. Care, Gender and the Public Life  7. Care and Global Justice 8. Looking Back and the Way Ahead

List of contents

Introduction - A Historical Perspective on Women's Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics 1. Origins Revisited: on the Mother's Side 2. Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas, and the Communal Life 3. The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in Christine de Pizan's Fortress, and in XVth Century Public Life 4. Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment 5. Care as Virtue 6. Care, Gender and the Public Life 7. Care and Global Justice 8. Looking Back and the Way Ahead

Product details

• Authors: S Berges, S. Berges, Sandrine Berges
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137026637
• ISBN: 978-1-137-02663-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Feminism, Medicine, Ethics, Medicine: general issues, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Health Sciences, Medicine/Public Health, general, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy, care;ethics;feminism;gender;Virtue Ethics