Minimizing marriage : marriage, morality, and the law / Elizabeth Brake.

By:

Brake, Elizabeth

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199775354
0199775354

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minimizing marriage.DDC classification:

173 23

LOC classification:

HQ734 .B785 2012eb

Other classification:

C913.13

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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.

Summary: 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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 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

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