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Provides a comprehensive and systematic family ethic, addressing major issues fueling the family values debate.

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Author:   Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780791439975

ISBN 10:   0791439976
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   22 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Perplexities of Conceiving the Family as a Normative Institution Obstacles to an Independent Family Ethics The Incongruence of Family Ethics with Property Right, Morality, and Politics The Specter of Relativism and Nihilism Haunting Family Ethics Multiculturalism and Family Values , Freedom and Family Ethics Chapter I Ethical Community as the Framework for Family Ethics The Rationale for the Renewed Turn to Ethical Community The Fatal Limits of the Communitarian Turn Liberating Ethical Community from its Communitarian Deformation Property and Morality as Preconditions of Ethical Community Ethical Community as the Obligatory Complement of Property Right and Morality Hegel and the Rehabilitation of Ethical Community The Place of the Family in the Division of Ethical Community Chapter II Nature, Psychology, and the Normativity of the Family The Role of Nature in the Family The Contingency of Sexual Differentiation and Bisexual Reproduction in the Family The Contingency of Parenting in the Family The Family and the Human Metabolism with Nature The Family and Evolution The Family and the Birth of Culture Traditional Kinship and Family Ethics The Natural and Psychological Prerequisites of the Family Chapter III Friendship Morals versus Family Ethics The Confusion in the Classical Conception of Friendship The Lacuna of Friendship in Modern Ethics Family Relations in Contrast to Friendship Chapter IV Marriage With What Must Family Ethics Begin? Marriage as First Topic of Family Ethics Methodological Quandaries in Conceiving Marriage Marriage and Nature Marriage Versus Contract Marriage and Love he Eligibility to Marry Same Sex Marriage Incest and Marriage Monogamy, Polygamy, and Bigamy Marital Right and the Extended Family Preliminary Formalities to Marriage Formal Versus Informal Marriage The Grounds of Choice in Marriage Marriage and Family Name Chapter V The Conduct of Married Life The Internal Relation of Spouses Marital Property Relations The Scope of Mutual Care and Welfare in Marital Conduct External Marital Rights and Duties The Violation and Enforcement of Marital Right Chapter VI The Ethics of Parenting Objections to Child Rearing in the Family Historical Presuppositions of Ethical Parenting The Qualifications for Parenting Modes of Assuming Parental Duty The Parent-Child Relation The Resolution of Parental Conflict and Abuse Parent-Child Relations Afar Maturity Marriage and Parenting Sibling Relations and Family Ethics Chapter VII The Dissolution of the Family through Divorce, Death, and Disability The Right to Divorce Consent, Fault and the Grounds for Divorce Property Settlements and Alimony in the Divorce of Spouses without Dependents Divorce Settlements of Spouses with Dependents Death in the Family and Inheritance The Domestic Implications of Depersonalization Chapter VIII The Family in Relation to Civil Society and the State The Elementary Normative Structure of Family and Civil Society The Effect of Family Freedom Upon Civil Society The Impact of Civil Society Upon Family Right Family and State Notes Works Cited Index

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"""Winfield locates his treatment of the family within the context of a broader theory of justice, and shows how it fits into this larger framework as a unique part of a greater whole. He considers the entire range of issues concerning the family including marriage, common property, love and sexual relations-both heterosexual and homosexual-children and their upbringing, divorce and death, inheritance, etc. What is most gratifying though is that Winfield provides arguments and not just opinions about how these relations and practices constituting the family ought to be ordered. ""Winfield's book comes at a time when there is a need for philosophical reflection on questions of family values, children's rights, and same-sex marriage. He has developed interesting, thoughtful, and controversial arguments about all these matters. By providing a unified normative account of the family in all its dimensions, Winfield has accomplished something of intellectual importance."" - Robert Berman, Xavier University of Louisiana ""Winfield canvasses a wide range of philosophical issues related to civil society, the state, and family relations. He boldly advances a unique perspective that will vivify and challenge future work in these areas."" - Raymond Angelo Belliotti, State University of New York at Fredonia"

Winfield locates his treatment of the family within the context of a broader theory of justice, and shows how it fits into this larger framework as a unique part of a greater whole. He considers the entire range of issues concerning the family including marriage, common property, love and sexual relations-both heterosexual and homosexual-children and their upbringing, divorce and death, inheritance, etc. What is most gratifying though is that Winfield provides arguments and not just opinions about how these relations and practices constituting the family ought to be ordered. Winfield's book comes at a time when there is a need for philosophical reflection on questions of family values, children's rights, and same-sex marriage. He has developed interesting, thoughtful, and controversial arguments about all these matters. By providing a unified normative account of the family in all its dimensions, Winfield has accomplished something of intellectual importance. - Robert Berman, Xavier University of Louisiana Winfield canvasses a wide range of philosophical issues related to civil society, the state, and family relations. He boldly advances a unique perspective that will vivify and challenge future work in these areas. - Raymond Angelo Belliotti, State University of New York at Fredonia

Author Information

Richard Dien Winfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel; Freedom and Modernity; and Reason and Justice, all published by SUNY Press; and Systematic Aesthetics; Law In Civil Society; Overcoming Foundations: Studies In Systematic Philosophy; and The Just Economy.

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