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Feminist Approaches To Moral Luck, Carolyn Mcleod, Jody Tomchishen
Feminist Approaches To Moral Luck, Carolyn Mcleod, Jody Tomchishen
Carolyn McLeod
To a large extent, what we do and the circumstances we find ourselves in are beyond our control.[i]Yet this fact presents a problem for the common view that we can be held responsible only for what we have direct control over. If we have control over very little, if anything at all, then to what extent can we be held responsible? A typical response by feminist philosophers is to accept the absence of control—or in other words, the presence of luck—but to insist that responsibility remains often enough. According to this view, where there is luck, there can …