ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I argue that liberation movements can serve as a means for generating and disseminating moral knowledge and for cultivating agents who are receptive to this moral knowledge. As such, liberation movements have moral-epistemic benefits for both those inside and outside of the movement. Those inside a movement benefit from participating in the epistemic community provided by the movement. This community fosters the development of new moral knowledge as well as new moral-epistemic tools. It also provides an environment in which people can expand their moral imaginations and grow as moral-epistemic subjects. Moreover, the actions of those in the movement help to disseminate the moral knowledge and moral-epistemic tools they have developed to those outside of the movement—challenging dominant moral-epistemological frameworks in the process. I use examples from the movement for the abolition of prisons and other forms of state-based punishment to show what this looks like in action.
