paternalism's Usage Examples:

Others, such as Beauchamp and Childress, justify paternalism not through consent but solely by beneficence.

Publications 2) The forms and limits of enterprise paternalism.

Moral vs. welfare paternalism The usual justification for paternalism refers to the interests of the person being interfered with.

More generally, we might accept what Feinberg called " soft paternalism.

Richard Dimbleby's benevolent paternalism was set alongside the differing personalities of Michelmore and, to a greater extent, Whicker.

medical paternalism is being replaced by an emphasis on autonomy, with adequate information for patients to decide.

But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.

This rules out, among other things, conceptions of 'positive liberty ' that really involve paternalism.

To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism.

There was the paternalism of a Frederick the Great in his encouragement of the silk industry, - "which all idle people ought to be made to work at," - in his encouragement of commerce through the newly acquired port of Marseilles and the opening up of market placed.

Synonyms:

attitude, mental attitude,

Antonyms:

intolerance, respect, reverence,