Title Information
Title
"Not the Boss of Me": Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority
Name: Personal
Name Part
Silverstein, Jed Daniel
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creator
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2012
Physical Description
Extent
vii, 249 p.
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born digital
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2012)
Name: Personal
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Estlund, David
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Director
Name: Personal
Name Part
Larmore, Charles
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Director
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Brettschneider, Corey
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Reader
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Brown University. Philosophy
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sponsor
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theses
Abstract
Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal thinkers in the social contract tradition such as Hobbes and Locke dedicated significant attention to the relationship between parental and political authority. My dissertation aims to revive the idea that the question of parental authority is philosophically relevant to the question of political authority, and vice versa. Thinking about parental authority in the light of political authority, I argue that we discover that the duration and scope of parental authority is surprisingly more limited than we may have thought. And in thinking about political authority in the light of parental authority, I argue that we discover ways to solve problems that arise from the contemporary emphasis on consent as the moral foundation of political authority.
Subject
Topic
Parental authority
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Topic
Political Authority
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/854835")
Topic
Children
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1053451")
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Parents
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20121023
Language
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eng
Language Term: Text
English
Identifier: DOI
10.7301/Z0RB72XX
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dissertations