By contrast, only referring to the "lived morality" of stakeholders' moral experiences and beliefs is fraught with the danger of perpetuating wrongful practices.
Many of the consultative approaches identified are based on coherence, the majority of which explicitly refer to wide reflective equilibrium, and seek to find a balance (an 'equilibrium') between, for example: background theories, moral principles, morally relevant facts, moral experiences of others, considered moral judgements of the 'thinker' e.g. [ 20].
Therefore, when a proponent of feminist ethics insists on highlighting women's morality, she may simply be doing some remedial work adding women's moral experiences to a male-biased ethical tradition sorely in need of them.
But the great philosophers — Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Spinoza, Hegel, Nietzsche — describe moral experiences far more carefully and subtly than most of us can, and moreover, they provide historical perspectives that can help offset the limitations of our own limited viewpoint.
They're good at explaining how people make judgments about harm and fairness, but they still struggle to explain the feelings of awe, transcendence, patriotism, joy and self-sacrifice, which are not ancillary to most people's moral experiences, but central.
Far less, however, is known about the moral experiences of those who pursue breastfeeding.
In his view, touch is the primary moral experience: it is morality as we experience it in the first instance in the actual world.
The irreducible minimum on which feminist ethics stands is what Alison Jaggar defined as commitment to the ideas that "the subordination of women is morally wrong and that the moral experience of women is worthy of respect" (Jaggar 1991: 95).
Religion is simply too entwined with our moral experience ever to be disentangled from it, and morality is inseparable from politics.
But there also those — like Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum — who offer rich and subtle delineations of our moral experience.
It's the sheer sensuous, aesthetic and moral experience of being embedded in that universe".
