Ethics Chapter 9 – Flashcards
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Who argues that it is because women spend too much of their lives mothering, that women develop a morality consistent with this experience?
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Ruddick
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Who thought that women were inferior to men morally?
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Freud
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Traditional moral philosophy has been favorable to women as evidenced by the views of Rousseau and Aristotle.
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False
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For Baier, the tradition of rights has only worked against women and not for women.
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False
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Ethics of care argues that there is a female moral perspective that contrasts sharply with the male moral perspective.
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True
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The fourth feature of the Gilligan challenge to liberal orthodoxy, according to Baier, is a challenge to its typical rationalism.
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True
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The "third wave" of feminism addresses the problem of diversity in dealing with women's issues.
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True
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Today feminist ethics is distinguished from an ethics of care that is sometimes called feminine ethics.
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True
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Some questions have been raised about the ethics of care, including the idea that not all mothers are caring and nurturing.
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True
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One reason why male and female morality may differ from each other is biological differences between males and females.
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True
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According to Noddings, the language of ethics has primarily been the language of the
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Father
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Carol Gilligan's research supports the research and findings of Lawrence Kohlberg.
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False
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According to ethics of care, the female moral perspective takes a more universal and partial standpoint in reasoning about what is morally good and bad.
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False (male perspective)
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Psychologist Carol Gilligan interviewed both male and female subjects and found there was no difference in their moral reasoning.
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False
