Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a 'family'? What is a 'family tie'? We use the general concept of 'family' in many contexts in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politics and yet one person's family may be strikingly different from another's.
This introductory guide sets out to examine the multiple meanings of the family and related concepts. It explores the different roles played by these concepts in our attempts to understand who we are, where we belong, and what we owe to whom, and the relationships between individual, family, and society. Grounded in philosophy and ethics, the book also draws extensively from other disciplines such as law and sociology, discussing the concrete implications of these ideas for issues such as parental love, marriage and divorce, family autonomy, and assisted reproduction.
Discusses the ethics of family from a philosophical and practical perspective, engaging law, psychology, and sociology.
Recenzijas
An excellent, philosophically rich and nonetheless accessible introduction to a wide range of important topics about the family, marriage, partnership and intimacy. Baron and Crowley start from a socially liberal political orientation and show that a commitment to social liberalism still leaves a wide range of issues about families up for the intelligent and thoughtful philosophical analysis and debate they provide in this volume. * Amy Mullin, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada *
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Discusses the ethics of family from a philosophical and practical perspective, engaging law, psychology, and sociology.
Introduction
1. Family Autonomy and its Limits
2. Parents, Love, and Duty
3. Dilemmas of Care
4. Identity, the Past, and the Future
5. The Meaning of Biology
6. Adoption, Surrogacy, and Assisted Reproduction
7. Family History and Fertility Fraud: A Case Study
8. Marriage and Commitment
9. Domestic Abuse
Closing remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Teresa Baron is a Nottingham Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK.
Christopher Cowley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.
