Lecture 39: Feminine and Feminist Ethics Consider the following: Kohlberg’s “Heinz Dilemma” Heinz’s wife is dying. There is a drug that will save her life. She will die if she does not take the drug, and she will live if she does

Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

1. Pre-Conventional Morality

Stage I. Heteronomous Morality

Stage II. Individualism

Stage III. Mutual Interpersonal Expectations and Relationships

Stage IV. Social System and Conscience
3. Post-Conventional or Principled Morality

Stage V. Social Contract Morality

Stage VI. Universal Ethical Principle Morality
From Lawrence Kohlberg, The Psychology of Moral Development.
1982, Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice

 postulated that there was a unique voice expressed by women and rarely expressed by men, which was a legitimate moral point of view in its own right

 “voice of care” and the “ethic of care”, in contradistinction to the Kohlbergian “ethic of justice”

 particular emphasis on relationships, rather than abstract principles of equality and fairness

 forms basis for a “feminine ethic of care”

What are the differences between these two approaches?

1. 
   Is there a human nature? And is there such a thing as women’s nature quite distinct from men’s nature?
   
2. 
   What does the ethic of care say to traditional ethical theories we’ve looked at?
   
3. 
   What role should an analysis of power play in our moral theories?