Moral status and the wrongness of paternalism
In this paper, I consider the view that paternalism is wrong when it demeans or diminishes the paternalizee’s moral status (the Moral Status Argument). I argue that we should reject the Moral Status Argument because it is both too narrow and too broad. It is too narrow because it cannot account for...
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| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2014
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