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In this chapter I explore a morally rich notion of solidarity and the relationships it promotes, and in doing so, argue for the role of empathetic understanding in the moral response to civilized oppression. This is a position generally accepted in feminist philosophy, but I introduce two caveats that extend the role of moral solidarity in controversial ways.
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Jean Harvey, Civilized Oppression, (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), 70–72.
A number of writers have made this point, for example, Laurence Thomas, “Moral Flourishing in an Unjust World,” Journal of Moral Education 22, no. 2 (1993), 87.
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988), 179.
Laurence Thomas, “Moral Deference,” Philosophical Forum 24, no. 1–3 (Fall-Spring 1992), 247.
Sandra Lee Bartky, “Sympathy and Solidarity,” in Sympathy and Solidarity and Other Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 71–72.
Michele M. Moody-Adams, “Culture, Responsibility, and Affected Ignorance,” Ethics 104, no. 2 (January 1994), 291–309.
Paul Benson, “Blame, Oppression, and Diminished Moral Competence,” in Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Urban Walker (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 183–200.
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Harvey, J. (2015). The Relationship of Moral Solidarity. In: Calcagno, A. (eds) Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498069_3
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