In our best interest : a defense of paternalism /

This text argues that there is nothing distinctively objectionable about paternalism. According to the pro-paternalist view it defends, it is permissible to intervene in a person's choices or behaviour whenever doing so would serve that person's best interest without wronging anyone else.

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Defense of paternalism
Pro-Paternalism --
What Pro-Paternalism Is --
Interests: Three Issues --
Anti-Paternalism --
Further Clarifications --
Plan of the Book --
Misapplication and Individuality: Millian Arguments --
Mill and Paternalism --
Moral Principles and Institutional Rules --
Rule-Consequentialism --
Absolute Prohibition? --
Individuality --
Insult and Equality --
Three Preliminary Replies --
Motive-Based Objection --
Expressive Objection --
Status-Based Objection --
Imposition of Values --
Weak Constraint --
Stronger Constraints --
"Means-Related" vs. "Ends-Related" Paternalism: Problems --
Admissible and Inadmissible Interests, Revisited --
Problem Case: The Jehovah's Witness --
Paternalism and Moderate Deontology --
Moderate Deontology --
Brennan's Analysis --
Net Interests Principle and the Zero Threshold Proposal --
Positive Threshold Proposal --
Autonomy --
Soft Paternalism I: The Ignorance Exception --
Soft Paternalism --
Ignorance and Responsibility --
Preferring Ignorance for Its Own Sake --
Hypothetical Informed Consent --
Voluntariness and Risk --
Soft Paternalism II: The Impairment Exception --
Impairment: Examples --
Impairment and Imprudence --
Impairment and Voluntariness --
Desire-Based Account: Implications --
Desire-Based Account: Further Problems --
Summary: Rejecting the Hard/Soft Distinction --
Libertarian Paternalism, Manipulation, and the Shaping of Preferences --
Preference-Shaping Paternalism and the Manipulation Objection --
Preference Shaping: Rational Persuasion or Manipulation? --
Account of Manipulation --
Applying the Account --
Subliminal Messaging Objection --
Applications --
Tobacco --
Alcohol --
Compulsory Insurance --
Withholding of Medical Information --
Conclusion.
1. Verfasser:
Hanna, Jason (Associate Professor of Philosophy)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
This text argues that there is nothing distinctively objectionable about paternalism. According to the pro-paternalist view it defends, it is permissible to intervene in a person's choices or behaviour whenever doing so would serve that person's best interest without wronging anyone else.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-087715-4
0-19-087716-2
0-19-087714-6
Schlagworte:
Social psychology.
Paternalism > Social aspects.
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