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Dialogue among Friends: Toward a Discourse Ethic of Interpersonal Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jean Keller
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Abstract

Despite clear parallels between Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethics and recent scholarship in feminist ethics, feminists are often suspicious of discourse ethics and have kept themselves mostly separate from the field. By developing a sustained application of Habermas's discourse ethics to friendship, Keller demonstrates that feminist misgivings of discourse ethics are largely misplaced and that Habermas's theory can be used to develop a compelling moral phenomenology of interpersonal relations.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 158 - 181
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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