Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

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Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

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Some feminists say women should forget old-fashioned ethical rules and focus on developing positive aspects of their characters. Not so, says Sarah Conly.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/33/Why ... tue_Ethics
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Re: Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

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For once a highly relevant topic!

Some of those femenists are quite rabiate, and will disregard good sense with quite disasterous results. Here in Denmark we've had some weird ideologies that didn't take off, but fortunaly was quelled. It was including 50/50 gender at the board of directors and such, which would disregard both qalification and motivation, which is unsound policy, but many feminists will only see their own sickly ideologies.
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HexHammer wrote:For once a highly relevant topic!

Some of those femenists are quite rabiate, and will disregard good sense with quite disasterous results. Here in Denmark we've had some weird ideologies that didn't take off, but fortunaly was quelled. It was including 50/50 gender at the board of directors and such, which would disregard both qalification and motivation, which is unsound policy, but many feminists will only see their own sickly ideologies.

I can't get into these back issues because when I try to log in it says I have to contact PN to create an account but when I email I don't get a response.

But at least I learned one new thing - 'rabiate' = 'rabid'
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Wyman wrote:
HexHammer wrote:For once a highly relevant topic!

Some of those femenists are quite rabiate, and will disregard good sense with quite disasterous results. Here in Denmark we've had some weird ideologies that didn't take off, but fortunaly was quelled. It was including 50/50 gender at the board of directors and such, which would disregard both qalification and motivation, which is unsound policy, but many feminists will only see their own sickly ideologies.

I can't get into these back issues because when I try to log in it says I have to contact PN to create an account but when I email I don't get a response.
You must buy a digital subscription to PN. Its a great value. You get access to all issues that have been published.

But at least I learned one new thing - 'rabiate' = 'rabid'
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Re: Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

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tbieter wrote:
Wyman wrote:
HexHammer wrote:For once a highly relevant topic!

Some of those femenists are quite rabiate, and will disregard good sense with quite disasterous results. Here in Denmark we've had some weird ideologies that didn't take off, but fortunaly was quelled. It was including 50/50 gender at the board of directors and such, which would disregard both qalification and motivation, which is unsound policy, but many feminists will only see their own sickly ideologies.

I can't get into these back issues because when I try to log in it says I have to contact PN to create an account but when I email I don't get a response.
You must buy a digital subscription to PN. Its a great value. You get access to all issues that have been published.

But at least I learned one new thing - 'rabiate' = 'rabid'
Thanks, and I did just get a response from my latest inquiry - I probably had the wrong e-mail before.
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Re: Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

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HexHammer wrote:... It was including 50/50 gender at the board of directors and such, which would disregard both qalification and motivation, ...
Not necessarily as it could just mean preferring an equally qualified female over their male counterpart.
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