The Unnatural Lottery explores moral luck as mediated by gender, race, social class, and sexual passions. Opportunities to become good are not the same for all. Kantian ethics assumes the same virtues accessible to all rational choosers. Character, however, is affected by circum…
by Project Muse, Card, Claudia
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The Unnatural Lottery explores moral luck as mediated by gender, race, social class, and sexual passions. Opportunities to become good are not the same for all. Kantian ethics assumes the same virtues accessible to all rational choosers. Character, however, is affected by circum…
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
by Jaggar, Alison M., Nussbaum, Martha C., (Martha Craven), Nye, Andrea, Schutte, Ofelia, Bartky, Sandra Lee, Brennan, Teresa, Card, Claudia, Held, Virginia, Lewis, Stephanie, Narayan, Uma, Shrader-Frechette, K. S., (Kristin Sharon), Warren, Karen
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
