Minimizing marriage : marriage, morality, and the law /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brake, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy.
Subjects:
Marriage > Philosophy.
Marriage > Moral and ethical aspects.
Marriage law.
Mariage > Philosophie.
Mariage > Aspect moral.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Ethics & Morals.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Family Relationships.
Marriage law
Marriage > Moral and ethical aspects
Marriage > Philosophy
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Ethik
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The marriage promise: is divorce promise-breaking?
  • How to commit marriage: a conceptual guide
  • Marriage, sex, and morals
  • Special treatment for lovers: marriage, care, and amatonormativity
  • Critiques of marriage: an essentially unjust institution?
  • Defining marriage: political liberalism and the same-sex marriage debates
  • Minimizing marriage: what political liberalism implies for marriage law
  • Challenges for minimal marriage: poverty, property, polygyny.

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