Informationen zum Autor Allyn Fives is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway Klappentext When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? 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. Zusammenfassung When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents Part I: Paternalism and its limits 2 Paternalism 3 Caretaker or liberator? Part II: Conceptual and metholodogical issues 4 Moral dilemmas5 Children's agency6 Parental power7 Normative legitimacy Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power 8 Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family9 Licensing, monitoring, and training parents10 Children and the provision of informed consent11 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic education12 ConclusionIndex

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When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? 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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1 Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents Part I: Paternalism and its limits 2 Paternalism 3 Caretaker or liberator? Part II: Conceptual and metholodogical issues 4 Moral dilemmas 5 Children's agency 6 Parental power 7 Normative legitimacy Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power 8 Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family 9 Licensing, monitoring, and training parents 10 Children and the provision of informed consent 11 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic education 12 Conclusion Index