A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics [electronic resource] /
Berges, S.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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 Fifteenth-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; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Feminist theory.
Ethics.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Medicine.
Philosophy.
Feminism.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
History of Philosophy.