1st Edition

Rethinking Feminist Ethics Care, Trust and Empathy

By Daryl Koehn Copyright 1998
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    The question of whether there can be a distinctively female ethics is one of the most important and controversial debates in gender studies, philosophy and psychology today. Rethinking Feminist Ethics; Care, Trust and Empathy marks a bold intervention in these debates and bridges the ground between women theorists disenchanted with aspects of traditional ethics and traditional theories that insist upon the need for some ethical principles.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 An ethic of care; Chapter 2 An ethic of broad empathy; Chapter 3 An ethic of trust; Chapter 4 A dialogical ethic; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

    Biography

    Daryl Koehn is Wicklander Chair of Professional Ethics at DePaul University, Chicago. She is the author of The Ground of Professional Ethics (Routledge).