Paternalism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2017.3652Keywords:
paternalism, autonomy, perfectionism, benevolence, incompetenceAbstract
This article gives a brief description of a concept of paternalism that would be central in the current fields of law, politics and ethics. According to it, paternalism would essentially consist of an exercise of power over a subject (or a group of subjects) aimed at avoiding damages of physical, psychic and/or economic type to the subject itself (or group). Likewise, the general guidelines of a model of justification of paternalistic intervention are described.
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