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“Autonomy” and the ”Moral Subject” in Kantian and Feminist EthicsOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This study tackles two major concepts. First, ”Autonomy”, which is a key concept in moral philosophy, developed by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. ’Autonomy’ in Kant’s philosophy is often used as the basis for determining moral responsibility for one’s actions or it is the ability to impose objective moral law on oneself. Second, the ”Moral Subject”-a term coined by Karen Green, in her book The Woman of Reason. This term is Green’s feminist re-working of Kant’s concept of ”Moral Autonomy”. According to Green, the main issues around which feminist ethics revolve are the concepts of ”Autonomy” and the ”Moral Subject”. The difference between both terms is that Kant’s concept is purely intellectual based on his speculative philosophy and his universal approach, whereas feminist ethics, on the other hand, locates the female self within a specifically social-economic environment. Therefore, Green chooses to reconstruct Kantian ethics through a feminist approach of ethics that aims at establishing and consolidating women’s individuality. Thus, the objective of this research is to investigate the major concepts of feminist ethics with particular emphasis on Karen Green’s writings and applying them to contradict Kantian ethics.
This philosophical background will be used as a guideline to reading and analyzing the theoretical feminist writings of both Ann Jellicoe and Caryl Churchill and how they transformed these ideas into dramatic and theatrical presentations. This study is divided into three chapters as follows: Chapter One: This chapter introduces the philosophical trend of feminist philosophy known as feminist ethics, pioneered by Karen Green, focusing on the concept of ”moral subject” which she coined as a feminist ethical reworking of Kant’s concept of ”autonomy.” The chapter includes other women philosophers who have contributed to the field of feminist ethics. Chapter Two: This chapter is an intensive analysis of the plays of Ann Jellicoe in light of her own personal assimilation of the concepts of feminist ethics which are then transformed into dramatic and theatrical representations which have made of her theatre a model of the feminist experimental political theatre .Chapter Three: This chapter tackles the dramatic and theatrical transformations of Caryl Churchill’s feminist politics combined with the concepts of feminist ethics to create her socialist-feminist drama. Conclusion: The conclusion is an analysis of the conclusions reached in the three chapters with the end of formulating a synthesis between the concepts of feminist ethics and feminist drama, in general, and the plays of Ann Jellicoe and Caryl Churchill in particular.
Key words:
1-Ethics
2-Autonomy
3-Moral subject
4-Patriarchy
5-Oppression.