ABSTRACT
Held contends that traditional philosophical ethics fails to take women’s moral experience seriously, and she undertakes to correct that oversight. For Held, moral experience is “experience of consciously choosing, of voluntarily accepting or rejecting, of willingly approving or disapproving, of living with these choices, and above all of acting and of living with these actions and their outcomes.” Since women and men have traditionally been assigned different social roles, they have faced different moral problems, and they have had different moral experience. Feminist moral theory, in Held’s view, focuses on women’s moral experience and articulates its ethical significance.
