Family Values and Social Justice: Reflections on Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships by H. Brighouse and A. Swift

ISBN-13: 9780367586157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Andr?e-Anne Cormier; Christine Sypnowich

Opis

This volume assesses the argument of Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift in their recent book, Family Values, taking up a number of controversial issues about autonomy, human flourishing, parental rights, and indeed the nature of childhood itself.

Spis treści

Introduction - Introduction Andrée-Anne Cormier and Christine Sypnowich 1. What abolishing the family would not do Anca Gheaus  2. Equality and family values: conflict or harmony? Colin M. Macleod  3. Flourishing children, flourishing adults: families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate Christine Sypnowich  4. On the permissibility of shaping children’s values Andrée-Anne Cormier  5. For a political philosophy of parent–child relationships Daniel Weinstock  6. Childhood bads, parenting goods, and the right to procreate Sarah Hannan and R. J. Leland 7. Family values reconsidered: a response Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift

O autorze

Andrée-Anne Cormier is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at York University, Glendon College, Toronto, Canada. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Law Department at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, where she worked as a member of the Family Justice research project, funded by the European Research Council. Her current research focuses primarily on issues of legitimacy in upbringing, childhood, and gender justice. She also has published articles in philosophy of education and animal ethics.

Christine Sypnowich is a Professor, a Queen’s National Scholar, and the Head of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She is the author of Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Routledge, 2016) and The Concept of Socialist Law (1990), editor of The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen (2006), and co-editor (with David Bakhurst) of The Social Self  (1995). She is currently working on a book on G.A. Cohen, as well as starting a new project on heritage and political philosophy. Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, New Left Review and Politics and Society.