In our best interest : a defense of paternalism /
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2018] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 271 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-265) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780190877132 (hardback) : 0190877138 (hardback) |
Index Number: | HM1033 |
CLC: | C912.6-0 |
Call Number: | C912.6-0/H243 |
Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: Pro-Paternalism -- What Pro-Paternalism Is -- Interests: Three Issues -- Anti-Paternalism -- Further Clarifications -- Plan of the Book -- Misapplication and Individuality: Millian Arguments -- Mill and Paternalism -- Moral Principles and Institutional Rules -- Rule-Consequentialism -- Absolute Prohibition? -- Individuality -- Insult and Equality -- Three Preliminary Replies -- Motive-Based Objection -- Expressive Objection -- Status-Based Objection -- Imposition of Values -- Weak Constraint -- Stronger Constraints -- "Means-Related" vs. "Ends-Related" Paternalism: Problems -- Admissible and Inadmissible Interests, Revisited -- Problem Case: The Jehovah's Witness -- Paternalism and Moderate Deontology -- Moderate Deontology -- Brennan's Analysis -- Net Interests Principle and the Zero Threshold Proposal -- Positive Threshold Proposal -- Autonomy -- Soft Paternalism I: The Ignorance Exception -- Soft Paternalism -- Ignorance and Responsibility -- Preferring Ignorance for Its Own Sake -- Hypothetical Informed Consent -- Voluntariness and Risk -- Soft Paternalism II: The Impairment Exception -- Impairment: Examples -- Impairment and Imprudence -- Impairment and Voluntariness -- Desire-Based Account: Implications -- Desire-Based Account: Further Problems -- Summary: Rejecting the Hard/Soft Distinction -- Libertarian Paternalism, Manipulation, and the Shaping of Preferences -- Preference-Shaping Paternalism and the Manipulation Objection -- Preference Shaping: Rational Persuasion or Manipulation? -- Account of Manipulation -- Applying the Account -- Subliminal Messaging Objection -- Applications -- Tobacco -- Alcohol -- Compulsory Insurance -- Withholding of Medical Information -- Conclusion. |