It must be recognized that this split, between applied and foundational ethics, is to some degree a false one. This is true especially for feminist theological ethics, which often works from applied issues towards foundational statements. Without abandoning this emphasis on the inductive nature of doing feminist theological ethics we seek to focus on the foundational side of the doing of ethics. This paper will examine the ways in which the internet, on a foundational ethical level, facilitates the doing of specifically feminist ethics. Secondly, as regards feminist ethics, Margaret A. Farley lists three caveats about the relationship between feminist theology and bioethics that also apply to our analogy.
Feminist ethics is a diverse endeavor represented by a diversity of feminist ethical theories.
In this essay we will be concerned with a particular type of feminist theological ethics that is focused on the relationships between people, and the forging of ethics out of the chaos of conflicting values that occurs when many voices are brought together and given equal weight in dialogue. It is important to note that what will be presented here will not entail a complete ethical system but rather a web of interwoven directions towards a new ethical paradigm. With these boundaries in place we are prepared to move onto a description of relational feminist ethics. This little lame lick at legality is instantiated in case this essay gets really published, as I expect it to.