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In Praise of Blame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Barbara Houston
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Abstract

Recent writers in feminist ethics have been concerned to find ways to reclaim and augment women's moral agency. This essay considers Sarah Hoagland's intriguing suggestion that we renounce moral praise and blame and pursue what she calls an “ethic of intelligibility.” I argue that the eschewal of moral blame would not help but rather hinder our efforts to increase our sense of moral agency. It would, I claim, further intensify our demoralization.

Type
LESBIAN COMMUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 128 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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