The Just FamilyThe 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 | 13 |
The Rationale for the Renewed Turn to Ethical Community 17 The Fatal | 32 |
Chapter II | 39 |
Nature 46 The Family and Evolution 47 The Family and the Birth | 50 |
The Confusion in the Classical Conception of Friendship 53 The Lacuna | 58 |
With What Must Family Ethics Begin? 63 Marriage as First Topic | 68 |
and Love 81 The Eligibility to Marry 87 Same Sex Marriage 88 Incest | 103 |
Chapter V | 109 |
Objections to Child Rearing in the Family 132 Historical Presupposi | 137 |
Modes of Assuming Parental Duty 145 The ParentChild Relation 148 | 148 |
The Resolution of Parental Conflict and Abuse 153 ParentChild Rela | 162 |
The Right to Divorce 166 Consent Fault and the Grounds for Divorce | 176 |
tions of Depersonalization | 188 |
The Elementary Normative Structure of Family and Civil Society 194 | 194 |
The Effect of Family Freedom Upon Civil Society 196 The Impact of Civil | 204 |
Works Cited | 261 |
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