the view that government may legitimately decide what is in the best interests of adult citizens, just as a parent tray legitimately decide what is in the best interests of the child
The practice of governing or monitoring adult individuals in a manner that suggests a father/child relationship The practice is ethically violates an adult's status as an autonomous moral agent
Paternalism means taking all the decisions for the people you govern, employ, or are responsible for, so that they cannot or do not have to make their own decisions. the company's reputation for paternalism. when people in charge of an organization or society protect the members and give them what they need but do not allow them any freedom or responsibility paternalist
A system or practice of governance whereby the social superior acts in a "fatherly" fashion, providing for the oppressed social inferior's needs but allowing no rights or responsibilities The paternalist system undermines the collectivity of the oppressed by aligning them more or less individually with the social superior