Moral Contexts

To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Margaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice, and the Public Sphere in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: The Place of Moral Thinking

xi

Part One: Contexts Absent or Ignored

Moral Particularity

3

(18)

Moral Luck and the Virtues of Impure Agency

21

(14)

Partial Consideration

35

(22)

Part Two: Feminism as Theory and Context

What Does the Different Voice Say? Gilligan's Women and Moral Philosophy

57

(14)

Moral Understandings: Alternative ``Epistemology'' for a Feminist Ethics

71

(14)

Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory

85

(18)

Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics

103

(14)

Some Thoughts on Feminists, Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophy

117

(6)

Part Three: Institutional and Social Contexts

Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting

123

(18)

Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition

141

(24)

Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What ``We'' Know in Ethics

165

(24)

Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life as a Career

189

(18)

Part Four: The ``Human'' Context

Human Conditions

207

(16)

Index

223

(6)

About the Author

229

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