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Childhood in Liberal Theory

Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects due to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and particular needs. How does this differential status fit in with the principles of justice that structure our society, law, and morality? Despite the growth of philoso...

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Main Author: Brando, Nicolás
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Liverpool University Press 2024
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"Ethics, morality, law, philosophy, philosophy of law, social, political, family law: children, social discrimination, inequality, human rights, jurisprudence, children, adolescents, society, developmental psychology "
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNM Family law::LNMK Family law: children
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDC Law: Human rights and civil liberties
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAB Methods, theory and philosophy of law
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSP Age groups and generations::JBSP1 Age groups: children
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSP Age groups and generations::JBSP2 Age groups: adolescents
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAQ Law and society, sociology of law
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Online Access:https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92426
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Summary:Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects due to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and particular needs. How does this differential status fit in with the principles of justice that structure our society, law, and morality? Despite the growth of philosophical research on childhood and children's rights during the last decades, there has been no systematic study on the moral and political status of children in liberal political theory. Childhood in Liberal Theory fills this gap, and offers a novel look at the concept of 'childhood' and children's rights within the tradition of liberal theories of justice. Brando proposes an ambitious deconstruction of the concept of 'childhood', and an Adaptive model of children's rights as the most apt way of including children within liberal discourses on justice.

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