"Possession of various emotions and desires—care, concern, love, but also anger, revulsion, indignation—is not just immensely useful to seeing the moral landscape, it is a necessary condition of doing so. The idea of dispassion as the paradigmatic epistemic stance seems to me a dangerous one, for there are some truths, I want to argue, that can be apprehended only from a stance of affective engagement. The claim is an important one, for, if correct, it means we must reject the “bureaucratic model” of morality that is implicit in so many ethical theories."
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Margaret Olivia Little, "Seeing and Caring: The Role of Affect in Feminist Moral Epistemology," Hypatia, vol. 10, no. 3 (Summer 1995), p. 118.
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