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Narratives of Responsibility and Agency: Reading Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings

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Abstract

Naturalized moral epistemology eschews practices of assuming to know a priori the nature of situations and experiences that require moral deliberation. Thus it promises to close a gap between formal ethical theories and circumstances where people need guidelines for action. Yet according experience so central a place in inquiry risks “naturalizing” it, treating it as incontestable, separating its moral and political dimensions. This essay discusses these issues with reference to Margaret Walker's Moral understandings.

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Symposium On Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 156 - 173
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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