Evaluating Parental Power: An Exercise in Pluralist Political Theory

by Allyn Fives

Is parents' power over their children legitimate? And what role does theoretical analysis play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the state, it does so by focusing on one issue, the legitimacy of parents' power. It also takes seriously the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and considers the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784994324
• ISBN13: 9781784994327
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"