Family Values (eBook)

The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships

Harry Brighouse, Adam Swift (Autoren)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5254-3 (ISBN)

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Harry Brighouse is professor of philosophy and affiliate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include On Education and School Choice and Social Justice. Adam Swift is professor of political theory at the University of Warwick. His books include Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians and How Not to Be a Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent.

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The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should-and should not-have over their children.Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parent-child relationships produce the "e;familial relationship goods"e; that people need to flourish. Children's healthy development depends on intimate relationships with authoritative adults, while the distinctive joys and challenges of parenting are part of a fulfilling life for adults. Yet the relationships that make these goods possible have little to do with biology, and do not require the extensive rights that parents currently enjoy. Challenging some of our most commonly held beliefs about the family, Brighouse and Swift explain why a child's interest in autonomy severely limits parents' right to shape their children's values, and why parents have no fundamental right to confer wealth or advantage on their children.Family Values reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adam Swift • Adoption • Adult • asymmetry • attempt • aunt • Autonomous Agent • Autonomy • bedtime • Bending • Cambridge University Press • caregiver • Centrality • Child Abuse • child care • child rearing • children • Children's rights • Citizenship • Cognitive skill • Communitarianism • Consideration • Controversy • Convention on the Rights of the Child • Cost–benefit analysis • Cultural Capital • Deliberation • disadvantage • Discretion • distributive justice • Duty of care • egalitarian ideals • egalitarianism • egalitarian liberals • Employment • Equality • Equal Opportunity • Ethics of Care • Extended family • Fair procedure • familial relationship goods • Familial Relationships • Family • family values • Flourishing • gender neutrality • gestation • grandparent • Harvard University Press • heterosexual family • Homeschooling • Household • income • Individual Rights • Institution • interpersonal relationship • intimate relationship • Laurence Thomas • Legislation • level playing field • liberal democracy • Liberalism • London School of Economics • Martha Nussbaum • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Moral Development • Morality • mother • Multiculturalism • nanny state • Nationality • Negotiation • Norm (social) • obstacle • opportunity cost • Oxford University Press • parent • Parental influence • parental rights • parenting • parenting styles • Parents • parentУhild relationship • paternalism • Personal life • Philosopher • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Private Sphere • Public Policy • public reason • Rationality • Requirement • rights • same-sex relationship • school choice • Sharing • sibling • single parent • skepticism • Social Class • Social Environment • Social Inequality • Social Institution • Socialization • Social Justice • social justice theory • Society • Sociology • Suggestion • Surrogacy • The Various • two-parent family • unequal opportunities • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • University of Warwick • vulnerability • Wealth • well-being
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5254-4 / 1400852544
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5254-3 / 9781400852543