I argue that multicultural approaches to morality, cultivating moral attention collectively, are crucial to our individual and collective moral-political growth. Moral growth, including developing clarity about the world in which we live, cannot be a solitary or provincial pursuit. Many obstacles to clarity have causes that go beyond the individual, arising from influences by social relations which can serve oppression and its accompanying rationales at the expense of the truth. Surmounting these obstacles often requires collective work to reveal such distortions and find clarity. To do this, we must engage critically with our own and others' views and experiences, using these as raw material for developing transformative, resistant knowledge.
Moral attention offers a theoretical and practical framework on how to do so effectively.
The latter course dealt specifically with issues and literature germane to my project. Beyond her keen intellect and verbal ability, she already has a commanding grasp of relevant issues growing out of the Race and Gender course. She has rare gifts, combining intellectual rigor and reflection, critical reflection about method, and openness to diverse ideas and methods, and critical reflection upon everyday life's social practices, in academic and non-academic realms. Ivett has consistently contributed remarkable insight, raising the level of discussion so that we really stretch to understand each other and our readings. In short, she embodies the virtues of moral attention in her own intellectual methods.