Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law

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This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized.

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Marriage and Philosophy

For the moral philosopher, marriage raises key issues of the possibilities of interpersonal moral obligations and their bounds - not to mention the question of a good human life. Secular moralists often assume that marriage morally transforms a relationship, yet contemporary philosophers h... see more

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