Minimizing marriage : marriage, morality, and the law /
Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One, "De-Moralizing Marriage," essays on pro...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | Studies in feminist philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One, "De-Moralizing Marriage," essays on promise and commitment argue that we cannot promise to love and so wedding vows are (mostly) failed promises, and that marriage may be a poor commitment strategy. The book contends with the most influential philosophical accounts of the moral value of marriage to argue that marriage has no inherent mor |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199775354 0199775354 |