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Gender, Morality, and Ethics of Responsibility: Complementing Teleological and Deontological Ethics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
This text reconstructs the Kohlberg/Gilligan controversy between a male ethics of justice and a female ethics of care. Using Karl-Otto Apel's transcendental pragmatics, the author argues for a mediation between both models in terms of a reciprocal co-responsibility. Against this backdrop, she defends the circular procedure of an exclusively argumentative-reflexive justification of a normative ethics. From this it follows for feminist ethics that it cannot do without either of the two types of ethics. The goal is to assure the evaluative variety of different types of an ethics of the good without endangering the normative boundaries of a deontological discourse ethics.
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- Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Contemporary Feminist Philosophy in German , Spring 2005 , pp. 164 - 187
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- Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.
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