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Feminist Moral Inquiry: The Role of Experience
Virginia Held ?City University of New York ?
When I first read Science and the Theory of Value many years ago, I was surprised and pleased to discover how much closer my own developing views were to Peter Caws' than to most of the other work in ethics I was reading. I shared what I took to be his views that:
1) Science and ethics are different but analogous. ?2) Both can make progress. Thus we should not accept comparisons suggesting that while science marches forward piling up knowledge, ethics can only offer the venting of feelings, or reportage on attitudes whether justified or not. ?3) Both science and ethics are based on experience. ?4) Ethics is distinctively normative, it is not itself science.
I shared these views then (if I have interpreted his views correctly) and still do. But I have found it amazingly difficult in the years since to convey these positions on ethics clearly and......
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