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Right to Be Loved

Right to Be Loved

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Description
S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, as human beings, children have human rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life. Since being loved is one of those fundamental conditions, children thus have a right to be loved. Liao shows that this claim need not be merely empty rhetoric, and that the arguments for this right can hang together as a coherent whole. This is the first book to make a sustained philosophical case for the right of children to be loved. It makes a unique contribution to the fast-growing literature on family ethics, in particular, on children's rights and parental rights and responsibilities, and to the emerging field of the philosophy of human rights.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2015-10-29
Publication Date:
2015-10-29
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190234830
ISBN13:
9780190234836
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Weight:
480 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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