Gender and Moral Agency
Abstract
Rather than accept that either a justice perspective or a care perspective can be taken to every moral problem, I attempt to show that there are two fundamentally different but equally significant moral situations with which both women and men must contend. One type of situation involves those instances in which conflict must be adjudicated fairly. The other situation involves those instances in which welfare of sentient beings is at stake and adjudication is not necessary. If there are two responses which might be made to every moral problem, these responses might be better understood as a dutiful response and a direct response.Metrics
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