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Misplaced Gratitude and the Ethics of Oppression
This essay examines Claudia Card's notion of misplaced gratitude, which she explores in one of her last papers, \"Gratitude to the Decent Rescuer.\" Whereas typically philosophers have been interested in the problems of the failures to honor obligations of gratitude, Card is more interested in the opposite fault of misplaced gratitude. Her interest reflects her social indignation and her fundamental commitment to opposing oppression, exploitation, and injustice in all its forms. The phenomenon of misplaced gratitude becomes visible from this perspective, where one catches sight of what oppression does to people. The essay looks at the question, What does Card's analysis of misplaced gratitude tell us about her own philosophical methods and contributions? It discusses her engagement with both care ethics and Beauvoir's phenomenology of oppression to clarify the centrality of misplaced gratitude for Card's work in developing an ethics of oppression.
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Birth, death, and femininity : philosophies of embodiment
Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western
philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume
unravel the gendered aspects of the classical philosophical discourses on death,
bringing in discussions about birth, creativity, and the entire chain of human
activity. By linking their work to major thinkers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche,
Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to major philosophical currents such as ancient
philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they
challenge prevailing feminist articulations of birth and death. These philosophical
reflections add an important sexual dimension to current thinking on identity,
temporality, and community.
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The Atrocity Paradigm and the Concept of Forgiveness
In this article I discuss Claudia Card's treatment of war rape in relation to her discussion of the victim's moral power of forgiveness. I argue that her analysis of the victim's power to withhold forgiveness overlooks the paradoxical structure of witnessing, which implies that there is an ungraspable dimension of atrocity. In relation to this ungraspable element, the proposal that victims of atrocity have the power to either offer or withhold forgiveness may have little relevance.
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Introduction: Special Issue on 'Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil'
Schott discusses the problem of evil in the context of feminist philosophy. The gender-specificity of evil contributes to the greater trends of women being sufferers of evil acts, as shown in female genital mutilations and mass war rapes. This genealogy of women is both depressingly long and still of pressing contemporary concern.
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Just War and the Problem of Evil
In this essay, Robin May Schott criticizes leading proponents of just war theory and introduces the notion of justifiable but illegitimate violence. Instead of legitimating some wars as just, it is better to acknowledge that both the situation of war and moral judgments about war are ambiguous. Schott raises the questions: What are alternative narratives of war? And what are alternative narratives to war? Such narratives are necessary for addressing the concepts of evil and of witnessing in the ethical discourse after Auschwitz.
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