A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

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AFemi ni s tPer s pect i veon Vi r t ueEt hi cs Sandr i neBer ges

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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

10.1057/9781137026644 - A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics, Sandrine Berges

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Sandrine Berges Bilkent University, Turkey

10.1057/9781137026644 - A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics, Sandrine Berges

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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

© Sandrine Berges 2015

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Preface

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics

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Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side

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Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas and the Communal Life

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The Paradox of the