Yeah despite having studied philosophy I also found this a little impenetrable. It keeps saying things like,
values are simultaneously woven into the fabric of reality and such that we require particular sensitivities to recognise them
and that these views came from some women philosophers at Oxford and Durham, but never really explaining what they mean.
To the extent I felt I understood it, this was only by pattern-matching to the usual criticisms of EA and utilitarianism, like ‘too impersonal’ and ‘not left wing enough’. But this means I wasn’t able to get much new from it.
Yeah despite having studied philosophy I also found this a little impenetrable. It keeps saying things like,
and that these views came from some women philosophers at Oxford and Durham, but never really explaining what they mean.
To the extent I felt I understood it, this was only by pattern-matching to the usual criticisms of EA and utilitarianism, like ‘too impersonal’ and ‘not left wing enough’. But this means I wasn’t able to get much new from it.