Distinguishing Harms to Derive Commitments: Karen Warren and Aldo Leopold on Ecofeminism and Domination

Abstract

This paper explores Karen Warren\u27s formulation of an Ecofeminist argument, and aims to restructure it in a way that does not equate the impacts of domination on women with the impacts of domination on the natural world. With supplemental elements of Aldo Leopold\u27s Land Ethic arguments, I hope to provide a reformulation of Warren\u27s argument in which the dominator is still committed to dismantling these twin dominations. I posit that this commitment may be derived from the harm the process of dominating inflicts on the dominator\u27s perfectionist value and prudential value, an element which remains consistent in both dominations and indeed may move the dominator to action

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