Carol Hay, Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting OppressionNew York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013 Pp. vii+202, ISBN 978113700389-8 (hbk.) £ 55.00

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“…This is because imperfect duties require one to adopt a general maxim rather than to perform specific actions (Hay 2011, 29). She suggests that a general maxim for her victims' duty of resistance might be as follows: "There is an imperfect duty to protect one's own rational capacities by resisting oppression externally whenever prudent" (Huseyinzadegan 2015, paraphrasing Hay 2013. However, Hay maintains that just because imperfect moral duties lack a specified obligatory action does not mean that they are any less stringent than perfect duties.…”

Section: Theorising Victims' Moral Duties To Resist Their Own Oppressionmentioning

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The Morality of Resisting Oppression

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2020

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This paper reconsiders the contemporary moral reading of women’s oppression, and revises our understanding of the practical reasons for action a victim of mistreatment acquires through her unjust circumstances. The paper surveys various ways of theorising victims’ moral duties to resist their own oppression, and considers objections to prior academic work arguing for the existence of an imperfect Kantian duty of resistance to oppression grounded in self-respect. These objections suggest (1) that such a duty is victim blaming; (2) that it distorts the normative direction of self-regarding duties; and (3) that consequentialist reasons are inapt for justifying self-regarding ethical responsibilities. The paper then argues that the need for normative coherence in our very concept of a moral duty is of paramount importance, and especially so in the fight against patriarchal oppression. Accordingly, we should acknowledge the salient differences between pro tanto or defeasible moral reasons and fully fledged moral duties identifying agent-relative obligatory action. The paper concludes that we better respect and defend women’s rights when first we understand them as having, at best, defeasible moral reasons to oppose their oppression; and second, ensure that we make adequate allowance for a woman’s interpretative right to choose how to respond to her oppressive circumstances.

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Section: Theorising Victims' Moral Duties To Resist Their Own Oppressionmentioning

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The Morality of Resisting Oppression

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2020

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Carol Hay, Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting OppressionNew York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013 Pp. vii+202, ISBN 978113700389-8 (hbk.) £ 55.00

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