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The Filial Art
Author(s) -
ROSENTHAL ABIGAIL L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00016.x
Subject(s) - normative , relation (database) , interpretation (philosophy) , criticism , epistemology , psychology , politics , sociology , social psychology , law , philosophy , political science , linguistics , database , computer science
Psychological or political criticism of the parent‐child relation presupposes a normative account of that relation. Such an account is here provided. The normative account can shed most light when the parent‐child relation is presented recognizably, not in Utopian disguise. The purposes of reasonable people partly depend on their interpretations of those of their parents. This is so whether such people accept or reject any particular parental purposes. The filial art sticks to the project of working out the enacted interpretation—until it gets it approximately right. There is a corresponding parental art, neither compensatory nor sacrificial.