Virtue and moral obligation

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2023-06-19
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Routledge
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254 - 266
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en
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
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Although Early Modern male philosophers arguably moved away from virtue ethics toward theories of obligation, it is less clearly true of women philosophers of that period. I argue that Early Modern women philosophers in France and England mixed elements from virtue ethics and theories of moral obligation in order to theorize their moral experience. I look at Christine de Pizan, Jacqueline Pascal, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy
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