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Title: Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics by Margaret Urban Walker ISBN: 0-415-91421-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Extending ethical horizons
Comment: In Moral Understandings, Margaret Urban Walker not only powerfully argues the case for a feminist ethics of responsibility, but in so doing extends the implications beyond feminism. Viewing moral responsibility from various socially and culturally situated contexts seems common sense enough to all, accept those who imagine themselves to be in some transcendent position, epistemologically speaking.

What I get from reading Walker is not the idea that we should be reading off ethics from these various positions in the sense of doing the usual (traditional) ethics from many vantage points. That would be relativism. Rather, it seems to me that Walker is arguing that we should be responding from these positions. For Walker, moral responsibility is more an expressive and collaborative exercise than the traditional theoretical activity which focuses only on decision-making. It is this practice of responsibility that maintains the other-directedness of ethics embedded in social and cultural context.

For me, the most surprising aspect of Walker's book has been that so many of my applied ethics research students have found it useful in grounding their work in fields as diverse as disability, vulnerable identities, nursing ethics, GM foods, biotechnology, welfare ethics, and community development.

Rating: 1
Summary: Soggy relativism
Comment: The book rehashes ethical relativism. It tries to bring in some trendy takes on power, feminism, and Foucauld, but it just commits the relativistic fallacy over and over. Author seems unaware of logical contradictions.

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