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Title

Ethics : classical Western texts in feminist and multicultural perspectives / edited by James P. Sterba.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Sterba, James P.

Description

v, 570 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Ethics: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives offers students a unique introduction to ethics by integrating the historical development of Western moral philosophy with both feminist and multicultural approaches. It provides an introductory sampling of several of the classical works of the Western tradition in ethics and then situates these readings within feminist and multicultural perspectives so that they can be better understood and evaluated in our contemporary environment. While some of the non-Western works parallel the views defended in the Western works (e.g., Confucius's work echoes that of Plato or Aristotle), others question the Western perspectives (e.g., American Indian works provide an interesting challenge to Western moral philosophy)."--Jacket.

Subject

• Ethics
• Feminist ethics
• Ethics, Comparative

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Republic / Plato -- Plato's Republic and feminist / Julia Annas -- The analects / Confucius -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Politics / Aristotle -- Discourses / Musonius Rufus -- Women, slaves, and "Love of toil" in Aristotle's moral philosophy / Eve Browning Cole -- The book of Chuang Tzu / Chuang Tzu -- The city of God / Augustine -- Confessions / Augustine -- Misogynism and virginal feminism in the Fathers of the Church / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Pre-Columbian philosophical perspectives / Jorge Valadez -- Summa Contra gentiles / Thomas Aquinas -- Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- The book of the City of Ladies / Christine de Pizan -- Equality of souls, inequality of sexes: women in medieval theology / Eleanor McLaughlin -- Guide for the perplexed / Maimonides -- Treatise of human nature / David Hume -- Hume, the women's moral theorist? / Annette C. Baier -- Ewe proverbs -- Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant --^
• On the sublime and the beautiful / Immanuel Kant -- Maria von Herbert's challenge to Kant / Rae Langton -- The Bhagavad Gita -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- The enfranchisement of women / Harriet Taylor -- Utility and perfect equality / Maria H. Morales -- Universal love / Mo Tzu -- Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Nietzsche and moral change / Kathryn Pyne Addelson -- Nietzsche's trans-European eye / Mervyn Sprung -- Existentialism is a humanism / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Simone de Beauvoir and women: just who does she think "We" is / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- We are all related / Eagle Man -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- The structure of ethics and morals / R.M. Hare -- The radical future of Hare's moral theory / Lynne S. Arnault -- Perversions of justice: Native-American examination of the doctrine of U.S. rights to occupance in North America / Ward Churchill --^
• The nature of virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Non-relative virtues: an Aristotelian approach / Martha Nussbaum -- Whose traditions? / Susan Okin -- Gender inequality in China and cultural relativism / Xiaorong Li -- The justificatory argument for human rights / Alan Gewirth -- The sources of normativity / Christine Korsgaard -- The justification of morality and the behavior of women / James P. Sterba -- Harmony and nature and indigenous African culture / Moshoeshoe II -- Letters from Birmingham city jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Moral orientation and moral development / Carol Gilligan.

ISBN

0195127269 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99022801^

OCLC

41002802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library