The Moral Understandings of Margaret Urban Walker is definitely a feminist study of ethics. The main purpose of his writings is to "account for gender inequality in the socially constructed relationship between power - the political one - on the one hand and knowledge of truth and reality - the epistemological one - on the other" (Walker 1998, 20). However, her approach is very different from that of some feminist theorists who preceded her. Instead of adopting what I call a “care-centered” approach in which the primary task is to rehabilitate culturally associated “feminine” values, Walker adopts “. power-focused approach” in which he expresses an acute sensitivity to the fact that moral life and social life are intertwined. This power-focused perspective insists that our moral responsibilities arise from our social position, which, as Walker notes, depends on our “gender.” , age, economic status, race, and other factors that distribute power and forms of recognition differentially and hierarchically" (1998, 22). Explores the ways in which our power, or lack thereof, shapes our moral understandings and determines which ethical vision is privileged as authoritative. To date, those who are economically and socially powerful have been largely responsible for setting the moral agenda for all. Walker considers this state of affairs to be unjust because moral understanding is not property; exclusive to privileged few, but everyone's home territory. Outlining the difference between feminist and non-feminist approaches to ethics, Walker contrasts the "expressive-collaborative model" (1998, 60) of most feminist ethics with the theoretical- legal of most non-feminist ethicists. Argues that dominant non-feminist moral theories, such as ... middle of paper ... and should act or what should be motivated by. This effort is inspired by the idea that there is a universally applicable or even divine moral code to which we are all bound. Walker's position is that there is no such thing and that philosophers struggle in vain to create specific guidelines and calculations to define it. I completely agree with Walker, I believe his theory is the most insightful and lucid moral proposal I have ever read. The intersectionality of power and privilege in our lives is a crucial element to any social theory, and is often ignored as an irrelevant case. His position wonderfully leaves room for the variety and vagaries of people's lives: "I don't think this is a principled way of ordering in advance for all the numbers and kinds and combinations and weights of things that matter morally" ( Walker, 112).