Feminist ethics
Feminist ethics represents an approach to ethics according to which the experience of morality from the perspective of women was underestimated and / or incorrectly assessed in traditional ethical theories . That is why feminist ethics endeavors to view ethics in a completely new way and from a feminist point of view.
history
At the beginning of the 1980s, the question of feminist ethics became even more pointed to the question of whether one could speak of a morality of women as opposed to the morality of men. This discussion was triggered by the book "In a different Voice" by Carol Gilligan , published in the USA in 1982, in which a text defines moral behavior in return for Lawrence Kohlberg .
The core of Carol Gilligan's approach :
Based on a series of empirical studies, she differentiates between an ethic of justice , "moral of justice" and an ethic of care, "moral of care". In her opinion, men are closer to the models of reasoning and decision making as they develop the ethics of justice, and women are inclined to the ethics of care.
Web links
literature
- Carol Gilligan : The Other Voice , 1984
- Christoph Horn : Feminist Ethics , in: Otfried Höffe : Lexicon of Ethics . 7th edition. Munich, Beck 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56810-7 (with further references)
- Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Williams: Feminist Ethics , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tong, R. and Williams N., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Feminist Ethics, First published Tue May 12, 1998; substantive revision Mon May 4, 2009.