Moral Understandings: Alternative “Epistemology” for a Feminist Ethics

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Hypatia 4 (2):15-28 (1989)
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Work on representing women's voices in ethics has produced a vision of moral understanding profoundly subversive of the traditional philosophical conception of moral knowledge. 1 explicate this alternative moral “epistemology,” identify how it challenges the prevailing view, and indicate some of its resources for a liberatory feminist critique of philosophical ethics.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1989.tb00570.x

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