S Matthew Liao

The Right to Be Loved

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many international declarations claim that children have a right to be loved, but some see this as empty rhetoric. S. Matthew Liao defends the existence of this right by offering a novel justification for it and by detailing the nature and distribution of the duty to love children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 149mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780190234836
• ISBN-10: 0190234830
• Artikelnr.: 47864385

Autorenporträt

S. Matthew Liao is the Director of the Bioethics Program, Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is interested in a wide range of issues in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics, has two forthcoming edited volumes with Oxford University Press, Moral Brains: The Significance of Neuroscience for Morality and Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights (co-edited with R. Cruft and M. Renzo).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Can Children Have Rights?
Chapter 2 Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
Chapter 3 Being Loved as a Fundamental Condition for Children
Chapter 4 The Possibility of a Duty to Love
Chapter 5 The Duty to Love: Who Has It and To What Extent?
Chapter 6 Regulating Biological Parenting: The Problem of Possibly Inadequate Parents
Chapter 7 Children without Adequate Parents and the Duty to Adopt
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index