Contents -- Part I. Care -- 1. The Life of Care -- Why'Care'? -- Solicitude and the Objectivity of Values -- Solicitude and Being Human -- Social Atomism -- Care and Parentalism -- 2. Care and Moral Intuition -- Parentalism and Moral Experience -- The Nature of Moral Intuition -- The Dialectic of Intuitions and Ideas -- Level C Moral Experience -- Androgynous Moral Intuitions -- 3. Care and Morality -- The Infrastructure of Care -- The Pragmatics of Norms -- Rules for Rights -- The Utility and Disutility of Rights -- The Private and Public Spheres -- Part II. Parentalism -- 4. The Parental Analogy -- Fixing the Analogy -- Fromm on Mothers and Fathers -- Meeting the Needs of Children -- Meeting the Needs of Adults -- Routine and Reflective Care -- 5. Parentalism Defined -- The Need for a Definition -- The Definition -- Parentalistic Agents and Subjects -- Parentalistic Aims -- Parentalistic Measures -- 6. The Evaluation of Parentalism -- Consequentialism Salted with Deontology -- The Principle -- Judging the Good of Another -- Other Strategies -- An Illustration -- Part III. Autonomy -- 7. The Anatomy of Intervention -- The Absolutist Dilemma -- Benn's Threshold Concept -- A Relativistic Concept -- Facilities -- Faculties -- 8. The Value of Autonomy -- Mill on Human Dignity -- Self-Development and Success -- Respect for Persons -- Respect and the Right to Autonomy -- 9. The Role of Consent -- Current Consent -- Actual Rational Consent -- Prior Consent and Subsequent Approval -- Dispositional Consent -- Ideal Rational Consent -- Can the Right to Autonomy Be Waived? -- Part IV. Antiparentalism -- 10. Varieties of Antiparentalism -- Antiparentalism in the Liberal Tradition -- Mill's Antiparentalism -- A Compendium of Arguments -- Consent-Based Arguments -- Stratagems to Accommodate Intuitions -- Consequentialist Antiparentalism.

11. VanDeVeer's Consent-Based Antiparentalism -- Dignity and Autonomy -- Parentalism and Its Justification -- Treatment of Incompetents -- Criticisms of Good-Promotion -- Summa Contra VanDeVeer -- Part V. Public Parentalism -- 12. The State as Parentalist -- The Need for State Parentalism -- Protective Legislation -- The Security State -- Welfare Rights -- Legal Moralism -- 13. Feinberg's Antiparentalism -- The Program -- Hard Antiparentalism -- The Model of Sovereignty -- The Significance of Consent -- In the Absence of Consent -- 14. Professional Parentalism -- Social Roots of Professional Power -- Psychological Bases of Parentalism -- How Professional Parentalism Works -- The Justification of Professional Parentalism -- The Model of a Model Professional -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix: Critical Review of the Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.