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Thinking Morality Interpersonally: A Reply to Burgess-Jackson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Margaret Urban Walker
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Abstract

In a comment on my paper “Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory” (Walker 1992), Keith Burgess-Jackson argues that I have misdiagnosed the problem with modem moral theory. Burgess-Jackson misunderstands both the illustrative—“theoretical-juridical”—model I constructed there and how my critique and alternative model answer to specifically feminist concerns. Ironically, his own view seems to reproduce the very conception of morality as an individually internalized action-guiding code of principles that my earlier essay argued is the conception central to modern moral theories.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993, pp. 167 - 173
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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