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Paternalism by and towards groups
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. (Philosophy)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1689-0648
2018 (English)In: The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of paternalism / [ed] Kalle Grill and Jason Hanna, Routledge, 2018, p. 46-58Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In many or most instances of paternalism, more than one person acts paternalistically, or more than one person is treated paternalistically. This chapter discusses some complications that arise in such group cases, which are largely ignored in the conceptual debate. First, a group of people who together perform an action may do so for different reasons, which makes it more challenging to determine whether the action is paternalistic. This gives us some reason not to pin the property of being paternalistic on actions, since we may alternatively pin it on reasons for actions and allow that these differ between members in the group. Second, the prevention of harmful consensual interactions is sometimes paternalism towards both or all involved, but only if all benefit from interference with themselves rather than with other members in the group, or if all want the harm or risk (more or less) for its own sake. Third, interrelations between three components of paternalism - interference, benvolence and consent - gives us reason to allow that an action can be paternalistic towards some but not others of  those affected. This makes it even more difficult, and less relevant, to determine whether or not actions are paternalistic.

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Routledge, 2018. p. 46-58
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Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
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Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-145053ISBN: 978-1-13-895610-0 (print)ISBN: 978-1-315-65708-0 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-145053DiVA, id: diva2:1183936
Available from: 2018-02-19 Created: 2018-02-19 Last updated: 2020-05-13Bibliographically approved

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