Family Values

The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships

Harry Brighouse, Adam Swift (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17373-3 (ISBN)

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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 "familial relationship goods" 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.

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.

Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part One Liberty, Equality, Family 1 Introduction 2 Chapter 1 Liberalism and the Family 5 Chapter 2 Equality and the Family 23 Part Two Justifying the Family 47 Introduction 48 Chapter 3 Children 57 Chapter 4 Adults 86 Part Three Parents' Rights 113 Introduction 114 Chapter 5 Conferring Advantage 123 Chapter 6 Shaping Values 149 Conclusion 175 Notes 183 Bibliography 201 Index 213

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-17373-7 / 0691173737
ISBN-13	978-0-691-17373-3 / 9780691173733
Zustand	Neuware