noun
definition
The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
Examples of paternalism in a Sentence
To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism.
This rules out, among other things, conceptions of 'positive liberty ' that really involve 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.
But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.
Richard Dimbleby's benevolent paternalism was set alongside the differing personalities of Michelmore and, to a greater extent, Whicker.
More generally, we might accept what Feinberg called " soft paternalism.
Others, such as Beauchamp and Childress, justify paternalism not through consent but solely by beneficence.
Only they now have a sense of benign paternalism to any developing civilization.
Moral vs. welfare paternalism The usual justification for paternalism refers to the interests of the person being interfered with.