PHILOS 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Feminist Ethics, Nel Noddings, Virginia Held

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Feminist ethics critique the traditional theories, written by privileged men have certain. September 27 biases: male experiences are the norm. Emphasis put on the public realm, and the division of the public and private realm is a problem for morality: men as morally mature, females taken as morally immature. Reasoning as a quality applied to males, not females: masculine characteristics overrated. Taken to be the most important characteristics overall, the value emphasis is put on these associatively male" quality. Women not viewed as having capacity for reason aristotle puts rationality at the centre of his theory. Male" ways of reasoning (rights, rules, impartiality) over the female" way (relationships, responsibility, particularity) Critique of utilitarianism: total happiness is important, but this may exclude acting for loved ones in the requirement for impartiality. Extreme impartiality does not allow for family to be valued more: relationships are only indirectly relevant.

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Vapor cycles
5EM - Thermodynamics
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1 The T-S diagram
The temperature-entropy diagram is an alternative to the well knownpressure-
volume diagram. Before using it to analyze different vapor cycles,we need
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(c) Isometric heating
(d) Reversible adiabatic expansion
(e) Irreversible adiabatic expansion
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1. Given the temperature of the sources, draw the cycle accordingto the
named limitation.
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