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In recent years interpreters of Beauvoir are increasingly insisting that to read Beauvoir in terms of either a philosophy of gender or a philosophy of sexual difference is to fail to do justice to her work. These interpreters urge us to read with the multiple ambiguities of Beauvoir's analysis rather than to evade them. In this paper, I argue that reading with the ambiguities in Beauvoir's arguments opens up the relevance of her ethics to contemporary debates in feminist philosophy and, specifically to the task of formulating a satisfactory feminist theory of moral agancy. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Hutchings, Kimberly. "Beauvoir and the Question of Moral Agency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59107_index.html> |
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| Hutchings, K. , 2004-09-02 "Beauvoir and the Question of Moral Agency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59107_index.html |
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Abstract: In recent years interpreters of Beauvoir are increasingly insisting that to read Beauvoir in terms of either a philosophy of gender or a philosophy of sexual difference is to fail to do justice to her work. These interpreters urge us to read with the multiple ambiguities of Beauvoir's analysis rather than to evade them. In this paper, I argue that reading with the ambiguities in Beauvoir's arguments opens up the relevance of her ethics to contemporary debates in feminist philosophy and, specifically to the task of formulating a satisfactory feminist theory of moral agancy. |
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| Woman Gender Ethics: Beauvoir and the Question of Moral Agency " Not accepting logical principles and moral imperatives sceptical about the laws of nature woman lacks the sense of the universal; to her the world seems a confused conglomeration of special cases." (Beauvoir The Second Sex: 627) Feminist Ethics and the Moral Subject I come to Beauvoir's work with a particular agenda. I am interested in the possibility of articulating a feminist ethics that avoids the twin temptations of |
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