PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nel Noddings, Devaluation, Intersectionality
12 Mar 2018
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Feminist ethics: characterized by a : reaction to: D/evaluation suppression, marginalization, commodification, oppression, underrepresentation, discrimination, exploitation, inequality, etc. Masculine" ethics championing traits of autonomous subjectivity, neutral rationality, disembodied & disembedded individuality, abstract general rules, etc: affirmation of: Rationality, mutual dependency, embodiment, contextual embeddedness, intersectionality, diversity, background power conditions. Feminism is often time construed as being critical smashing down idles of masculinity: Feminism denotes an alternative reality of history. We need various relations of dependency in order to exist: embodiment and contextual embeddedness: we never find ourselves outside of concrete situations that are pregnant with meaning, historical contextualization, etc, we are historically situated. There is no compartmentalizing of issues: many issues of feminism intertwine with other issues in various different ways. Universalizing normative claims of where something is right and wrong: we do not find this in reason, instead, we find this in sentiment, emotions, passions and fundamental instinct.
