The phrase "a privileged standpoint" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a position or perspective that is advantageous or superior in some way. Example: "From her privileged standpoint as a wealthy business owner, she couldn't fully understand the struggles of those living in poverty."
The achievement of an epistemically privileged standpoint involves a political engagement that makes clear to the socially underprivileged the shared nature of their experiences of oppression and reveals the systematic structure of power relations.
Feminist standpoint theory, according to Harding, argues that the political engagement of feminists and their corresponding focus on the lives of women leads to an epistemically privileged "standpoint" on social reality (for example Hartsock 1983; Rose 1983; Smith 1974), with the political engagement requirement distinguishing the idea of a standpoint from the more generic idea of a "perspective".
However, most versions of standpoint theory represent the epistemically privileged standpoint as an achieved, not a given, perspective, requiring critical reflection on the power structures of society and the relations of one's group to it.
While the privileging of some epistemic perspectives ensures that standpoint theory bears normative content, it remains to be explained how one attains a privileged epistemic standpoint that will lead to objective knowledge, and how one can identify such a standpoint.
Accordingly, the activities of women that place them in a socially underprivileged position can form the basis of a privileged epistemic standpoint, through which a deeper understanding of patriarchal institutions and ideologies can be reached (Hartsock 1983).
The privileged standpoint is not that of women, but of feminists.
From this privileged standpoint of the proletariat, which is also Marx's standpoint, capitalism is unjust, and so it follows that Marx thought capitalism unjust.
This grants the artist a special status from at least two standpoints: 1) Artistic activity as an existential choice is a privileged mode of assuming and realising the paradoxical nature of being human.
This is somewhat surprising, though, since the Red-Green Alliance, the Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti), and the Social Liberal Party all argued from a secular standpoint, then and today, that Christianity Studies should change name to Religion or Ethics (Livsanskuelsesundervisning), and stop giving Christianity a privileged position.
It's a privileged relationship".
