Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships - Rilegato

Brighouse, Harry; Swift, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0691126917 ISBN 13: 9780691126913

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Brighouse and Swift raise some important issues and come to some conclusions that are bound to be controversial, which is exactly why this book is so important and so worthy of considerable thought and debate. The work is scholarly and well documented, with 30 pages of notes and bibliography accompanying the 181-page text. That's a welcome distinction over the political diatribes that often cloud family value debates. . . . Highly recommended." --Talking Ethics

"This thoughtful work addresses tensions between the liberty of parents to raise children as they see fit, parents' duty to ensure that children develop the capacity for autonomy, and the role of the family as an obstacle to fair equality of opportunity." --Choice

L'autore:

Harry Brighouse is professor of philosophy and affiliate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books includeOn Education and School Choice and Social Justice. Adam Swift is professor of political theory at the University of Warwick. His books includePolitical 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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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691126917
• ISBN 13: 9780691126913
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216