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020 | _a9780199464760 | ||
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_aDalmiya, Vrinda _914797 |
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245 | _aCaring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata | ||
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_bOxford University Press _aNew Delhi _c2016 |
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500 | _aAs a venture in the emerging field of comparative feminist philosophy, this work goes against the current trend of considering ‘caring’ and ‘knowing’ as independent of each other. It argues for what can be called a care-based epistemology modelled on the now-familiar care ethics. Using critical insights from the Mahabharata, the book proposes that knowing and caring can be fruitfully theorized ‘together’, while keeping the argument firmly rooted in mainstream Anglo-Western virtue epistemology | ||
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_aHumanities and Social Science _99370 |
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