Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Criticisms of LessWrong/reply (12)

No, it's really quite different from that. I spent 3 or 4 year fighting the Golden Age for Women myth, with profs teaching Challace and the Blade.

This is really talking from very academic philo points of view, about the fact that for most of philo's history, the only way to look at ethics, the only *valued way* anyhow, was to use the mind. rationality. Kant and his great moral imperative.

Feminist ethics talks about starting with emotion, heart as a philo concept; looking at relationships and communication before title and talent. And as we were talking about in another thread, recognizing that what seems rational is often just a gut level instinct that is then "propped up" as rational. Because our minds far more often than not, leap to conclusions and then justify.

Most of the work that wasn't about specific women's issues, wound up in articles about health care, medical ethics in general, client based legal ethics (vs., law based legal ethics), as well as standard issues like abortion. The most famous abortion essay, that I can't now remember who wrote it, though i should know that like my own name, about the "man who wakes up with another human attached to him for life support" came directly out of this school of thought.