Kant's and Hegel's Moral Rationalism: A Feminist Perspective

Abstract

Moral philosophy has conceived of its task in many different ways throughout its history. One of these has been to articulate qualities of character, or ‘virtues,’ which the morally good or morally admirable person will possess. This paper is a first step in an attempt to work out a feminist perspective on this aspect of moral philosophy and its history. I will focus on the moral philosophies of Kant and Hegel who exemplify different versions of a general orientation within moral philosophy which I call ‘moral rationalism.’ For the moral rationalistreasonandrationalityare at the center of the conception of the good or moral man (and I use the word ‘man’ here intentionally).

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