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...

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1. Verfasser: Brake, Elizabeth
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in feminist philosophy.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199775354
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