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Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western ... more Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition. Susan Turner and Gareth Matthews. (Eds.). Reprinted as "Rawls's Neglected Childhood: Reflections on the Original Position, Stability, and the Child's Sense of Justice" in The Idea of Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls. Clark Wolf and Victoria Davion. (Eds.). The book is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's Advanced Search to check whether the book ...
Manipulation is a means by which a person is gotten to do something that the person was not initi... more Manipulation is a means by which a person is gotten to do something that the person was not initially inclined to do. As such, it is a form of power. Distinguishing it from other forms of power, such as persuasion, coercion, and physical force, is both important and difficult. It is important because it often matters which form of power a political actor uses, and manipulation is commonly thought to be a form of power whose exercise is undesirable. It is difficult because the line between manipulation and persuasion is often obscure, and because the term manipulation can be applied to tactics that influence the target’s state of mind, and tactics that change the target’s situation. Political theorists and philosophers have offered several accounts of manipulation: Some see it as deceptive influence, some see it as covert influence, some see it as influence with covert intent, some see it as offering bad reasons, and some see it as changing the external situation. While each of these...
HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2013
Parents are usually appreciated as possessing legitimate moral authority to compel children to ma... more Parents are usually appreciated as possessing legitimate moral authority to compel children to make at least modest sacrifices in the service of widely shared values of moral decency. This essay argues that such authority justifies allowing parents to authorize a child to serve as an organ or tissue donor in certain circumstances, such as to authorize bone marrow donations to save a sibling with whom the potential donor shares a deep emotional bond. The approach explored here suggests, however, that at least under some conditions, parents have legitimate authority to authorize donations forbidden by current guidelines.
Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western ... more Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition. Susan Turner and Gareth Matthews. (Eds.). Reprinted as "Rawls's Neglected Childhood: Reflections on the Original Position, Stability, and the Child's Sense of Justice" in The Idea of Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls. Clark Wolf and Victoria Davion. (Eds.). The book is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's Advanced Search to check whether the book ...
Manipulation is a means by which a person is gotten to do something that the person was not initi... more Manipulation is a means by which a person is gotten to do something that the person was not initially inclined to do. As such, it is a form of power. Distinguishing it from other forms of power, such as persuasion, coercion, and physical force, is both important and difficult. It is important because it often matters which form of power a political actor uses, and manipulation is commonly thought to be a form of power whose exercise is undesirable. It is difficult because the line between manipulation and persuasion is often obscure, and because the term manipulation can be applied to tactics that influence the target’s state of mind, and tactics that change the target’s situation. Political theorists and philosophers have offered several accounts of manipulation: Some see it as deceptive influence, some see it as covert influence, some see it as influence with covert intent, some see it as offering bad reasons, and some see it as changing the external situation. While each of these...
HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2013
Parents are usually appreciated as possessing legitimate moral authority to compel children to ma... more Parents are usually appreciated as possessing legitimate moral authority to compel children to make at least modest sacrifices in the service of widely shared values of moral decency. This essay argues that such authority justifies allowing parents to authorize a child to serve as an organ or tissue donor in certain circumstances, such as to authorize bone marrow donations to save a sibling with whom the potential donor shares a deep emotional bond. The approach explored here suggests, however, that at least under some conditions, parents have legitimate authority to authorize donations forbidden by current guidelines.
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