Evaluating Parental Power

An Exercise in Pluralist Political Theory

AvAllyn Fives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Is parents’ power over their children legitimate? And what role does theoretical analysis play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the state, it does so by focusing on one issue, the legitimacy of parents’ power. It also takes seriously the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and considers the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving moral dilemmas associated with parental power.The primary intended market for this book is advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and established academics, in particular those with an interest in practical and applied ethics, contemporary political theory, moral theory, social theory, the sociology of childhood, political sociology, social work, and social policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social and Political Power
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781784994327

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Allyn Fives is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

Recensioner i media

‘Fives’ book is a wise, intelligent, consistently interesting, robustly argued and elegant discussion of issues that span the division of normative applied philosophy into ethics and political theory. It is an excellent contribution to the Lockean question of how and why power is rightly exercised by adult guardians over their children. No-one can read it without understanding this question better.’David Archard, Queen’s University, Belfast, Journal of political power

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents Part I: Paternalism and its limits2 Paternalism 3 Caretaker or liberator?Part II: Conceptual and metholodogical issues4 Moral dilemmas5 Children’s agency6 Parental power7 Normative legitimacy Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power8 Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family9 Licensing, monitoring, and training parents10 Children and the provision of informed consent11 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic education12 ConclusionIndex