 In the text, James Rachel's introduces us to Carol Gilligan. Carol Gilligan and other feminist philosophers bring a different sort of thought to ethical theory than something we've talked about before. So if you remember, we were looking at these philosophers during the course of the semester, and they were all trying to answer the question, how should you live your life? If you remember, they all had various answers, they had very different answers, but there's something that they pretty much all have in common. Personal relationships do not have a special consideration. What is moral or immoral does not change depending upon how you're related to somebody personally. Personal relationships have no moral standing above impersonal ones. How you should treat somebody and how you should act does not change depending upon whether you have a personal relationship with a person. Now Gilligan isn't necessarily disagreeing with these men about what is right or wrong, about what is moral or immoral. The only thing that she's suggesting is that there is a different perspective. And at least some of the time, with at least some women, they know that personal relationships can be involved in moral reasoning. It's not that justice or morality or obligation is irrelevant completely. Only that there might be more considerations than simply what people are owed, what they're due. In short, there might be more to morality than what can be covered with just merely impersonal relationships. Well, unlike these other philosophers who are trying to enter this question, how should you live your life, Carol Gilligan and other feminist philosophers are really asking the question, are personal relationships relevant to morality? And their answer is, well, yes, it should be obvious that there's more to relationship than simply morality, and there's more to morality than impersonal relationships. Well, now this very quickly raises this question, well, how are personal relationships relevant to morality? And this is where it gets difficult, much like any relationship status on social media it's complicated.