HLTHAGE 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Categorical Imperative
24 Oct 2013
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Spanning many fields such as morality, epistemology, politics, geography, and history. The attempt to incorporate an under recognized view. The argument that social conditions are relevant factors. Access for rights that were previously not accessible for women. Early fem issues concerned with the political and economic status of women. Right to have education and have proff jobs. Access to commerce and property rights and access to healthcare. It is an ethical theory because it is concerned with all the dame problems as other theories but includes a wider scope. Bantham we are pleasure seekers governed in all we do in all we say, and in all we think by pain and pleasure. Kant we are rational maxim-deriving self governors. Feminism- we are at least partly the product of society and relationships we live in and our accounts of the good justice and other ethical concepts should reflect this. Philosophy- has not been kind to women historically.
