The Just Family

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SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1998 - Social Science - 273 pages
The Just Family presents a comprehensive and systematic theory of family values, determining both how marriage and parent-child relations should be structured as ethical institutions of freedom and how the rights and duties of family membership can be upheld in unity with social and political justice.
 

Contents

Obstacles to an Independent Family Ethics 2 The Incongruence of Fam
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The Rationale for the Renewed Turn to Ethical Community 17 The Fatal
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Chapter II
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Nature 46 The Family and Evolution 47 The Family and the Birth
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The Confusion in the Classical Conception of Friendship 53 The Lacuna
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With What Must Family Ethics Begin? 63 Marriage as First Topic
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and Love 81 The Eligibility to Marry 87 Same Sex Marriage 88 Incest
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Chapter V
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Objections to Child Rearing in the Family 132 Historical Presupposi
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Modes of Assuming Parental Duty 145 The ParentChild Relation 148
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The Resolution of Parental Conflict and Abuse 153 ParentChild Rela
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The Right to Divorce 166 Consent Fault and the Grounds for Divorce
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tions of Depersonalization
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The Elementary Normative Structure of Family and Civil Society 194
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The Effect of Family Freedom Upon Civil Society 196 The Impact of Civil
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Works Cited
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The Scope of Mutual Care and Welfare in Marital Conduct 120 External
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Chapter VI
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Richard Dien Winfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel; Freedom and Modernity; and Reason and Justice, all published by SUNY Press; and Systematic Aesthetics; Law In Civil Society; Overcoming Foundations: Studies In Systematic Philosophy; and The Just Economy.

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