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Chapter 12

Title: Annette C. Baier: The Need for More Than Justice

Quote: “ Their rights, and respect for rights, are quite compatible with very great misery, and
misery whose causes are not just individual misfortunes and physic sickness, but social and
moral improverishment” - Annette C. Baier

Expectations: I expect to learn more on the topic “the need for more
than justice”

Book Review:
The author of this chapter Annette C. Baier, discussed about how we need justice, what
to do when we have justice, if we think what is correct, then we should do it, or else don’t do it.
We should prove it before we act, rather than going to war without and armor and weapon. All
of us has the justice waiting for us.

Things I have learned:

I learned that we different social cultures.

Integrity Questions:
1.) Who is Annette Baier?

2.) What contribution was made?

3.) How can this chapter help us?

4.) What is moral theory?

5.) What is counter culture?

Review Questions:
1.) Distinguish between the justice and care perspectives. According to Gilligan, how do
these perspectives develop?

- Justice perspectives and care perspectives are the right of each and every one of us.
2.) Explain Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. What criticisms do Gilligan and Baier
make of this theory?

- One should learn from experience.

3.) Baier says there are three important differences between Kantian liberals and their
critics. What are these differences?

- She said that relationship are equal, freedom of choice and the authority in emotion.

4.) Why does Baier attack the Kantian view that the reason should control unruly passions?

- She does what she think was correct.

Discussion Questions:
1.) What does Baier mean when she speaks of the need “to transvalue the values of our
patriarchal past”? Do new values replace the old ones? If so, then do we abandon the
old values of justice, freedom, and right?

- Yes, for me, I will not abandon the old values of justice, freedom, and right.

2.) What is wrong with the Kantian view that extends equal rights to all rational beings,
including women and minorities? What would Baier say? What do you think?

- I disagree.

3.) Baier seems to reject the Kantian emphasis on freedom of choice. Granted, we do not
choose our parent, but still don’t we have freedom of choice about many things, and
isn’t this very important?

- Yes, we can’t choose parents, we cannot choose some freedom.