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Evaluating parental power : an exercise in pluralist political theory / Allyn Fives.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526118806
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  • HQ755 .E935 2017
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Subject: When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? And how do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? These are the questions posed in this book. In doing so, a number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Evaluating parental power; Contents; List of tables ; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents; Part I: Paternalism and its limits; 1 Paternalism; 2 Caretaker or liberator?; Part II: Conceptual and methodological issues; 3 Moral dilemmas; 4 Children's agency; 5 Parental power; 6 Normative legitimacy; Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power; 7 Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family; 8 Licensing, monitoring, and training parents; 9 Children and the provision of informed consent.

10 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic educationConclusion; References; Index.

When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? And how do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? These are the questions posed in this book. In doing so, a number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation.

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