The problem of moral justification and feminist ethics

• Main Author: Pereira, Viviane Magalhães
• Publication Date: 2020
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Veritas (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Download full: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/article/view/36862
• topic: Moral justification. Ancient ethics. Feminist ethics. Ethics of care.; Fundamentación de la moral. Éticas antiguas. Ética feminista. Ética del cuidado.; Fundamentação da moral. Éticas antigas. Ética feminista. Ética do cuidado.; Atualização da ética e da moral

This paper focuses on the philosophical problem of moral justification with the aim of presenting the sense and validity of a feminist ethics. It is assumed that a feminist ethics would differ from the ancient ethics and would present an adequate alternative to the problem of moral justification as well of the current moral conflicts. It proposes a solution which follows a logic built by a determined human praxis. In other words, the aim of this paper is to help understand how a content of morality resulted from historical, temporal e cultural elements can be constructed. Such elements in this case are related to the women’s conditions arising in the social environment. But that requires that a new conception of ethics be presented to guide a solution to current moral conflicts as the Carol Gilligan’s feminist ethics of care.