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Philp, Mark (2016) Justice, realism and family care for the aged. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33 (1-2). pp. 413-433. doi: DOI: 10.1017/S0265052516000200
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052516000200
Abstract
Starting with a particular case of familial care for the aging, the discussion points to the difficulties in deriving practical judgments from ideal theory in cases where there seems to be injustice, but where there are multiple competing dimensions of value and cost. The essay argues that the problems discussed are deeply embedded in modern western cultures, where life expectancy has risen dramatically and has been coupled with a range of other social and demographic changes that make familial care for the aged difficult and burdensome, and where our thinking about justice and rights are integral to the conflicted ways in which people construct and experience these situations, rather than standing independently as a solution to them. The essay argues for a set of partial, limited, and “realist” responses that reduce some elements of burden, without pretending to provide a solution that is in any sense ideal or wholly just. The argument from a case is integral to the essay’s case for realism in moral and political philosophy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Aging parents -- Care, Older people -- Care., Caregivers -- Services for | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Philosophy and Policy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0265-0525 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 413-433 | ||||||||
| DOI: | DOI: 10.1017/S0265052516000200 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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