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This booklet introduces many of the prime social theorists briefly, vigorous entries via major Australian students.
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Feminist standpoint theories question this goal of objective, value-free knowledge, arguing that women's distinctive psychological and social experiences provide the potential basis for a sup or understanding of the nature of social relations. Feminist postm mists by contrast are sceptical of any such claims to truth and of attempts to attribute a privileged status to women's experiencesSimilar debates have occured in the sphere of ethics. Gilligan (1982) exposed the male bias of prevailing psychological models of moral development, showing that women opted for an approach to moral problems which emphasised responsibilities to others rather than abstract rights.
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Jonas, G. Gray, R. Nisbet, J. N. Shklar, S. Wolin, B. Crick, H . Morgenthau, D. Sternberger, E. Heller, E. Vollrath, and E. Young-Bruehl essler, C. (1989) (eds) Hannah Arendt. Thinking, Judging, Freedom Sydney, Alien & Unwin Kateb, G. (1984) Hannah Arendt. , Rowrnan & Allanheld May, D. (1986)Hannah Arendt Harmondsworth, Penguin Nelson, J. S. (1978) 'Politics and truth: Arendt's problematic' American Journal of Political Science 22: 270-301 Parekh, B. (1981)Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy Atlantic Highlands, Humanities Press Quinton, A.
