25.4.3-Feminist Ethics

Which of the following are characteristics of Feminist Ethics?

• An emphasis on personal relationships

• Holds people to a standard of 100% impartiality

• High respect for importance of emotions

• Emphasis on how we should act in an ideal world

Feminist Ethics focuses on the public sphere.

• True

• False

Some feminist ethicists argue that we should not try to account for all of morality with general, abstract moral principles.

• True

• False

Some feminist ethicists argue that we should not make impartiality central to our ethics.

• True

• False

Why do feminist ethicists think emotions are important?

• Emotions can motivate us to do good.

• Emotions can make us empathize with others' suffering.

• Emotions without thinking are blind.

• Emotions can alert us to evil.

Feminist ethicists emphasize the nonideal world because they think it's a problem that traditional ethics focuses so much on the _____ world.

What might be some problems with ethical theories that emphasize an ideal world?

The Ethics of Care is a type of Feminist Ethics.

• True

• False

Which of the following does the Ethics of Care emphasize?

• moral laws & reasoning

• moral principles

• close personal relationships

• moral virtues such as compassion, love, sympathy, faithfulness, and kindness

Feminist ethics emphasizes the nonideal realities of our lives.

• True

• False