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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

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  • © 2015

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  1. Sandrine Berges

    1. Bilkent University, Turkey

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 1-9

  3. Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 10-32

  4. Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas and the Communal Life

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 33-58

  5. The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in Christine de Pizan’s Fortress and in Fifteenth-Century Public Life

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 59-83

  6. Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 84-108

  7. Care as Virtue

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 109-128

  8. Care, Gender and the Public Life

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 129-149

  9. Care and Global Justice

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 150-168

  10. Looking Back and the Way Ahead

    • Sandrine Berges
    Pages 169-172

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-199
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bilkent University, Turkey

    Sandrine Berges

About the author

Sandrine Berges is a feminist philosopher currently working at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey. Her publications include a guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, as well as various other pieces on the feminist history of philosophy and ancient virtue ethics.

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