Deck 64: Alison M.Jaggar: Feminist Ethics

Question 1

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-According to Jaggar, feminist approaches to ethics are distinguished by an explicit commitment to

A) Kantian theory.
B) correcting male biases.
C) adopting absolutist principles.
D) establishing the ethics of care.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-The notion that men and women have dramatically different styles of moral decision-making was highlighted in research done by

A) Annette Baier.
B) Alison Jaggar.
C) Virginia Held.
D) Carol Gilligan.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-The feminist charges against Western ethics include

A) lack of concern for ethics.
B) an overemphasis on women's needs.
C) lack of concern for women's interests.
D) too much focus on virtues.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that Western ethics has neglected

A) moral principles.
B) women's issues.
C) Eastern perspectives.
D) moral actions.

Question 5

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-According to Jaggar, nonfeminist approaches to ethics are necessarily anti-feminist.

Question 6

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-According to Jaggar, feminist ethics has been misconstrued by proponents and critics.

Question 7

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-According to Jaggar, justice and care are incompatible.

Question 8

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-According to Jaggar, many feminist writers insist that the values and virtues inherent in most traditional moral theories typically reflect a masculine perspective.

Question 9

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that feminist ethics has sometimes been wrongly identified with putting women's interests first.

Question 10

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that feminist ethics has sometimes been wrongly identified with accepting women (or feminists) as moral experts or authorities.

Question 11

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that feminist ethics is a systematic extrapolation of women's moral experience, exclusive of men's.

Question 12

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that feminist ethics can never begin by assuming that women and men are similarly situated.

Question 13

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar believes that feminist approaches to ethics should not try to provide guidance on issues of so-called private life.

Question 14

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Jaggar says that what is feminist often will turn out to be very different from what is feminine.

Question 15

Jaggar provides an instructive overview of feminist ethics and the issues with which it wrestles. She traces the development of the field in modern times, provides a survey of its main complaints against traditional ethics, rebuts common misconceptions, and reviews many of the topics that have recently preoccupied its practitioners.
-Hobbes uses the term Leviathan to refer to democratic government.