Deck 9: Feminist Thought and the Ethics of Care

Question 1

Ethics of care does not tell us how we are to determine what will help or harm particular individuals.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

One reason why male and female morality may differ from each other is biological differences between males and females.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

For Baier the best moral theory must not be a cooperative product of women and men but must primarily focus on an ethics of care.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Who argues that it is because women spend too much of their lives mothering that women develop a morality consistent with this experience?

A) Noddings
B) Ruddick
C) Whitbeck
D) Gilligan

Question 5

Some questions have been raised about the ethics of care including the idea that not all mothers are caring and nurturing.

Question 6

Traditional moral philosophy has been favorable to women as evidenced by the views of Rousseau and Aristotle.

Question 7

Ethics of care argues that there is a female moral perspective that contrasts sharply with the male moral perspective.

Question 8

The two parties to the relation of caring for Noddings are the "one-caring" and the "cared-for."

Question 9

According to Noddings the language of ethics has primarily been the language of the

A) Mother.
B) Father.
C) Caregiver.
D) Children.

Question 10

According to ethics of care,the female moral perspective takes a more universal and impartial standpoint in reasoning about what is morally good and bad.

Question 11

The "third wave" of feminism addresses the problem of diversity in dealing with women's issues.

Question 12

Who thought that women were inferior to men morally?

A) Gilligan
B) Noddings
C) Greeno and Maccoby
D) Freud

Question 13

Today feminist ethics is distinguished from an ethics of care that is sometimes called feminine ethics.

Question 14

The fourth feature of the Gilligan challenge to liberal orthodoxy according to Baier is a challenge to its typical rationalism.

Question 15

Psychologist Carol Gilligan interviewed both male and female subjects and found there was no difference in their moral reasoning.

Question 16

For Baier the tradition of rights has only worked against women and not for women.

Question 17

Carol Gilligan's research supports the research and findings of Lawrence Kohlberg.