Paternalism theory and practice
"Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considera...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Introduction: Paternalism
- Issues and trends; 1 Defining paternalism; Dimensions; Outcomes vs. motives; Actual vs. hypothetical motives; Motives vs. reasons; Normative constraints; A's act must violate B's autonomy vs. A's act need not be a violation of B's autonomy; Acts vs. omissions; Against your consent vs. failing to consider whether you consent or not; Interests at stake; Physical welfare vs. moral; Definitions; Definition A; Definition B; Definition C; Definition D; Definition E; Definition F; Definition G; Definition H; An examination in detail of one case.
- 2 Penal paternalism3 Self-sovereignty and paternalism; The scope of self-sovereignty; Drug and prostitution laws; The priority of self-sovereignty; Anti-paternalism; 4 The right to autonomy and the justification of hard paternalism; Hard/soft and strict/loose paternalism; Some competing accounts of the right to autonomy: Feinberg's, the libertarian's, and CP; Some possible views about the right's strength and scope; Against an absolute right to autonomy; 5 Moral environmentalism; Moral environmentalism in focus; A presumptive case for moral environmentalism; Personal autonomy.
- Autonomy as an ethical idealAutonomy as a sovereign right; Enforcing morality; Perspectival autonomy; From principle to practice; Conclusion; 6 Kantian paternalism and suicide intervention; Kantian paternalism described; Instrumental irrationality and our normative powers; The irrationality of suicide; Kantian paternalism at its limits: Suicidal nihilism; Conclusion; 7 Paternalism and the principle of fairness; An example; Nozick and a revised principle of fairness; The amended principle and some further objections; Why excludability?; No harm, no wrong; Voluntary acceptance of benefits.
- EnforceabilityAn anti-paternalist objection to the principle of fairness; No hard paternalism?; Is paternalism morally objectionable?; Conclusion; 8 Paternalism in economics; Introduction; What is minimalism?; What is paternalism?; Is minimalism paternalistic?; On the distinction between values and preferences; Avoiding paternalism; Conclusion: Burying the minimalist nanny state; 9 Choice Architecture: A mechanism for improving decisions while preserving liberty?; Introduction; Making people better off; What does better off mean?; Who is made better off?
- The problem of cognitive and affective biases and errors affecting the choice architect's judgmentMotivational problems such as indifference, conflicts of interest, or malevolence affecting the choice architectś judgment; Compatibility with individual liberty; The problem of manipulation and the transparency requirement; The problem of blocking or burdening choices; What would a true libertarian do?; 10 A psychological defense of paternalism; Introduction; Autonomy objections; Will they? Can they?42; Perceptions of paternalism; Light paternalism; Positive paternalism.
