The Right to Be Loved

di S. Matthew Liao (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 2015

S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, as human beings, children have human rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life. Since being loved is one of those fundamental conditions, children thus have a right to be loved. Liao shows that this claim need not be merely empty rhetoric, and that the arguments for this right can hang together as a coherent whole. This is the first book to make a sustained philosophical case for the right of children to be loved. It makes a unique contribution to the fast-growing literature on family ethics, in particular, on children's rights and parental rights and responsibilities, and to the emerging field of the philosophy of human rights.

• Autore: S. Matthew Liao
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 211 x 142 mm
• Peso: 431 gr.
• EAN: 9780190234836

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