Teresa Baron, Christopher Cowley

Philosophy of the Family (eBook, PDF)

Ethics, Identity and Responsibility

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350373655
• Artikelnr.: 69273403

Autorenporträt

Teresa Baron is a post-doctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

Inhaltsangabe

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