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Although traditional ethical frameworks were devised to provide guidance for the living of a good... more Although traditional ethical frameworks were devised to provide guidance for the living of a good human life, those frameworks, as Susan Parsons observes, 1 are inadequate because of the presumptions with which they were devised. According to Parsons, one such significant presumption is that men are the only moral agents. As a result of this presumption, women have not been a part of the description of the moral life and the analysis of the nature of ethical reasoning. In the same line of thought, Alison Jagger points out that some feminists "assert the problem with "malestream" ethics was not just that it had derogated women's moral competence and neglected issues of special concern to women but that its fundamental understanding of moral competence was masculine; therefore, it formulated and resolved moral issues in ways that were claimed to be distinctively masculine." 2 In the process, since stereotypically men are associated with traits such as reasonable, rational, and logical, whereas women with traits such as intuitive, illogical, and emotional, 3 in traditional moral theories reason has acquired primacy and the role of emotions has been totally ignored.
Although traditional ethical frameworks were devised to provide guidance for the living of a good... more Although traditional ethical frameworks were devised to provide guidance for the living of a good human life, those frameworks, as Susan Parsons observes, 1 are inadequate because of the presumptions with which they were devised. According to Parsons, one such significant presumption is that men are the only moral agents. As a result of this presumption, women have not been a part of the description of the moral life and the analysis of the nature of ethical reasoning. In the same line of thought, Alison Jagger points out that some feminists "assert the problem with "malestream" ethics was not just that it had derogated women's moral competence and neglected issues of special concern to women but that its fundamental understanding of moral competence was masculine; therefore, it formulated and resolved moral issues in ways that were claimed to be distinctively masculine." 2 In the process, since stereotypically men are associated with traits such as reasonable, rational, and logical, whereas women with traits such as intuitive, illogical, and emotional, 3 in traditional moral theories reason has acquired primacy and the role of emotions has been totally ignored.