Partially Examined Life podcast - Gilligan on Feminist Theory & Moral Psychology

This is an excerpt from a prior episode of The Partially Examined Life podcast, discussing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian novel Herland (1915) and psychologist Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (1983).
How does human nature, and specifically moral psychology, vary by sex? Charlotte Perkins Gilman claims that when philosophers have described human nature as violent and selfish, they have in mind solely male nature. Females, left to themselves in an isolated society, would be supremely peaceful, rational, and cooperative.
Carol Gilligan says accounts of "normal" moral development have not taken into account observations of women: instead of judging women my male standards and finding them wanting, she hypothesized a trajectory specific to women that acknowledged their emphasis on concrete care as opposed to abstract moral principles.
You can find the entire discussion, along with dozens of other episodes discussing philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, at the Partially Examined Life website: www.partiallyex...
About PEL: The podcasters were all graduate students in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin back in the Clinton years. They all left the program at some point before getting their doctorates and have consequently since had time to get outside that whole weird world of academia and reflect on it and the various philosophical topics with a different, and probably much more lazy, perspective.

[@syuezaki1927]

tq

[@graceweger1565]

This discussion fails to speak to the socialization of males and females that create these differences that are discussed and is completely ethnocentric, excludes experiences of non-binary folk, and intersectionality

[@eleventhhour5270]

Grace Weger A Camusian take on your comment could take the form of informing (mansplaining) you that suicide is a consideration that is, indeed, the province of a rational being. It is just that, according to Camus, this solves the 'absurdity of life' in a 'bad way.' It is my recommendation that you, specifically, solve your personal 'absurdity' in the worst way possible.

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