What is wrong with anti-paternalism?
The article scrutinizes anti-paternalistic arguments concerning the best judgements, the autonomy and the moral status of persons. The first two have been criticized by Quong as inadequate, and the article attempts to point out the shortcomings of this critique. The best judgement argument...
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2024-01-01
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| description | The article scrutinizes anti-paternalistic arguments concerning the best
judgements, the autonomy and the moral status of persons. The first two have
been criticized by Quong as inadequate, and the article attempts to point
out the shortcomings of this critique. The best judgement argument can be
reformulated, having in mind particular situations in which person’s own
judgement should be considered as decisive. The autonomy argument cannot be
disregarded as too permissive regarding paternalism as it allows
paternalistic interventions, which are weak and confined only to a strictly
limited scope. Also, when considered as the condition for the validity of
choice, autonomy cannot be treated as an ultimate value. Finally, the moral
status argument proposed by Quong is plausible to some extent, when claiming
that it is presumptively wrong to treat persons as not having equal moral
powers. However, this argument does not cover the legitimate institutional
policies in specific cases when it can be reasonably presumed that people
will omit to act in favour of their well-being. Also, this argument would
prohibit any interventions in order to increase availability of goods, even
if the moral status of the persons is not affected |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6549089f23634be9a89cc0493d7cfd272024-04-10T10:16:10ZdeuInstitute for Philosophy and Social Theory, BelgradeFilozofija i Društvo0353-57382334-85772024-01-0135114916410.2298/FID2401149S0353-57382401149SWhat is wrong with anti-paternalism?Sládeček Michal0https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8874-0720Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of BelgradeThe article scrutinizes anti-paternalistic arguments concerning the best judgements, the autonomy and the moral status of persons. The first two have been criticized by Quong as inadequate, and the article attempts to point out the shortcomings of this critique. The best judgement argument can be reformulated, having in mind particular situations in which person’s own judgement should be considered as decisive. The autonomy argument cannot be disregarded as too permissive regarding paternalism as it allows paternalistic interventions, which are weak and confined only to a strictly limited scope. Also, when considered as the condition for the validity of choice, autonomy cannot be treated as an ultimate value. Finally, the moral status argument proposed by Quong is plausible to some extent, when claiming that it is presumptively wrong to treat persons as not having equal moral powers. However, this argument does not cover the legitimate institutional policies in specific cases when it can be reasonably presumed that people will omit to act in favour of their well-being. Also, this argument would prohibit any interventions in order to increase availability of goods, even if the moral status of the persons is not affectedhttps://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2024/0353-57382401149S.pdfautonomyavailability of goodspaternalismanti-paternalismquong |
| spellingShingle | Sládeček Michal What is wrong with anti-paternalism? Filozofija i Društvo autonomy availability of goods paternalism anti-paternalism quong |
| title | What is wrong with anti-paternalism? |
| title_full | What is wrong with anti-paternalism? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | What is wrong with anti-paternalism? |
| title_short | What is wrong with anti-paternalism? |
| title_sort | what is wrong with anti paternalism |
| topic | autonomy availability of goods paternalism anti-paternalism quong |
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