Women, Role Ethics and Phenomenology: A Critique and Expansion

My presentation is an examination of Confucian Role Ethics through the lens of phenomenology. I will explore the idea that phenomenology implies a set of ethics when studying the humanities (or anything for that matter), but I will focus primarily on religion. I will discuss how dogmatic views on gender can be perpetuated by certain systems of role ethics. I will be using Roger Ames\u27 work as a jumping off point and will be discussing his omission of the female role in his book, Confucian Role Ethics, as it relates to phenomenology. Primarily, I will focus on this omission as un-phenomenological and strive to support that argument and how such hermeneutical errors both ignore and perpetuate the problem of patriarchy. I will discuss my recent experience presenting at the UAA conference “Living Ethically in a Global World”. I will discuss the unique challenge and rewards of critiquing a well-known scholar in my field