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112Dangerous Loyalties and Liberatory PoliticsHypatia 13 (4). 1998.While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on which the community is based. This essay investigates what loyalty is and whether loyalty is a virtue, and considers why, if loyalty is indeed a virtue, it may be one that is difficult to maintain in a context of oppression.
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14Critical Virtue Ethics: Understanding Oppression as Morally DamagingIn Peggy Desautels, Joanne Waugh, Margaret Urban Walker, Uma Narayan, Diana Tietjens Meyers & Hilde Lindemann Nelson (eds.), Feminists Doing Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2001.A critically revised Aristotelian-based virtue ethics has something potentially useful to offer to those engaged in analyzing oppression and creating liberatory projects. A critical virtue ethics can help clarify one of the ways in which oppression interferes with flourishing; specifically, it helps clarify an aspect of oppression that can be called "moral damage."
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Areas of Specialization
| Meta-Ethics |
| Normative Ethics |
| Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Areas of Interest
| Social and Political Philosophy |