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Petruschka Schaafsma
Petruschka Schaafsma
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Family and Christian Ethics , pp. 317 - 321
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Index

Adolf, Adam, 155, 164
Almond, Brenda
on family, 169–179
as fragmenting, 170–172
as natural, 172–179
Antigone (Sophocles), 89–103
duty to bury, 93–99, 114, 136
as divine, 95, 97–99, 101–102, 148–151, 153–154, 161–162, 291, 299, 301–302
as self-evident, 92, 95
family conflict, 93, 97, 102, 292
family tie, 87–88, 91, 95–98, 101–104, 153–154, 161
implicit character of, 97–99, 101
sisterhood, 89–93, 96–97
Austin, Michael W., 48–49
autonomy, see freedom, (contemporary) ideal of
Banner, Michael, 77
Bauman, Zygmunt, 27, 30–31, 36, 111
instability of current love relations, 30
Beck, Ulrich, 27–32
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 27–32
Berman, Anna, 9
Blustein, Jeffrey, 41–46, 49, 51
Boddy, Kasia, 10
Boehm, Gottfried
on ‘strong image’, 216–219, 225, 243
Böhnisch, Lothar, 35
Bollnow, Otto Friedrich, 66
Boyers, Robert, 10–11
Bréchon, Pierre, 55, 272
Brighouse, Harry, 39–40, 46, 48–49, 51
Brinig, Margaret F., 47
Browning, Don
on family
equal regard love, 180, 184
evolutionary theory, 181–183, 186–188
natural law, 183, 187
religious perspective, 183–186
Busch, Thomas, 65
Butler, Judith, 200
criticism of reification of family, 104, 113
for exclusionary effect, 104–105, 111, 113, 116, 142–143, 145, 147
in Antigone readings, 104
in Hegel, 104, 109, 111, 120, 125, 130, 147
in Lacan, 110–111
vs state, 104, 106–110, 115–116
on incest in Antigone, 104, 107–110
on interdependence, 105–106, 112–114, 118, 135, 143, 145, 205, 224, 226, 261, 292
on kinship instead of family, 106
radical kinship perspective, 106, 111, 145
Cahill, Lisa Sowle, 71–72
Cannell, Fenella, 34
care ethics
focus on dependence, 244–252
on asymmetry in care, 251, 254, 279
suspicion of family, 255–256, 260–263, 280
Carsten, Janet, 14, 192, 194, 195
Cere, Daniel, 46–47, 208
child-parent relations, 255, 289
asymmetry, 26, 246
children’s rights, 41, 141, 171, 174, 255
to know parent, 196
Christian/theological ethics, 16, 68, 187, 256–260, 295–296, 299
and secular moral debate, 70
on family, 15, 67, 70–78, 179–186
addressing suspicion, 74–76, 77
as a good, 67, 74–75, 77
early Christian views, 72–73, 164, 168, 183–184, 268
relativisation of, 76
Ciavatta, David, 133–146
on Hegel’s view of family, 205, 224, 261, 293
Antigone, 133, 136–138, 141, 154
criticism of modern freedom, 135, 138, 140, 142
intersubjectivity/recognition, 134–137, 139, 142–143
transforming nature, 137–140
unreflective morality, 133, 135–136, 139–144, 147–148, 153, 301
vs public sphere, 134, 136, 138–139
constructive reflection on family, 11, 15, 37, 39, 65, 78–79, 84–85, 111–112, 114, 118, 133, 140, 147, 155, 169, 201, 216, 224–228, 255, 260, 279, 284, 290, 292–294, 298–299
Cornwall, Susannah, 75
Dell, Kerstin, 9–10
dependence, see also family, and dependence
as fundamental/ontological, 105–106, 112–113, 118, 143, 148, 226, 251–252, 255–263, 264, 266, 269, –270, 272, 276, 279, 281, 286, 292, 294
as basis of equality, 258, 277
as incidental, 245, 249, 251–254, 257, 260–262, 280, 282
perceived as problem, 21
dependency critique, 246–247, 249–252, 253, 254, 257, 260, 262, 264, 279–281, 292, 298
of ideals of equality, 246, 251
on care, 246–252
in families, 250–251, 254–256, 261, 278
marginalisation, 250–252, 254, 257
Derks, Marco, 77
DeVries, Dawn, 263–264, 267–268
education, 264
family or state task, 37, 40–41, 44–46, 50, 188
within family, 5, 18, 36, 42–43, 46–50, 172, 180–181, 283
Engels, Friedrich, 44, 213
equality
(contemporary) ideal of, 49, 250–251, 279
Sullivan-Dunbar on, 257
Erlemann, Hildegard, 164
ethics, 112, 120, 141, 288, 303–304
on dependence, 106, 252–256
on family, 17, 19–20, 39–54, 114, 118–131, 142, 170–179, 265–267, 288–290
as pioneering, 41, 44, 46
based on suspicion, 40, 46, 50–53
duties, 17
focus on parenthood, 39, 169
family
and dependence, 5, 16, 21–27, 31, 38–39, 52–54, 68, 74, 79, 82–83, 85, 112, 145, 207, 225–287, 289, 292, 295, 298, 300, 303
as mystery, 280–287
and givenness, 5–6, 16, 21–27, 30, 31, 38–39, 41, 44, 52–54, 67–68, 74, 79, 82, 84, 87, 102, 106, 114, 117–118, 127, 132, 137, 146, 150–227, 242, 245, 261, 263, 279–280, 284, 286, 289–290, 291, 292, 294–295, 298–, 300, 303
as mystery, 222–224
as ‘natural’, 186–189
as ‘strong image’, 222
taken actively, 222–227
and incarnation, 221
Koschorke on, 165
Marcel on, 58, 62–64
and social injustice, 40–41, 43, 46, 50, 52–53, 73, 76, 170
and tension with ideal of freely chosen relations, 19, 21–23, 30, 37, 117, 169, 171, 222
and the sacred/transcendent, 67–70, 150–151, 153, 161–163, 185, 225, 264, 277, 286–287, 291, 296, 299
as a distinct sphere of life, 11, 16, 45, 54, 59, 62, 79, 81, 83, 86–87, 133, 143, 146, 153, 203, 227, 273–274, 276, 285, 291, 293–294, 298
criticism of, 86, 104, 106, 114, 132, 134, 147–148, 154, 192–193, 272, 292
as biological relations, 17, 22, 42, 50, 52, 61, 63, 75, 104, 115, 169, 172–179, 180–189, 251
anthropological criticism of, 112, 190–216, 295
as interwoven lives, 6, 21, 23, 53, 58, 141–145, 224, 226, 274, 293
authority in, 141, 267, 271, 301
controversial topic of, 9, 12–22, 26–27, 36, 40, 43–44, 50, 52–54, 58, 60, 63, 67, 70, 72, 74, 76–79, 82–84, 86, 103, 118, 168, 212, 214, 225, 227, 289–291, 294–295
dangers of, 15, 28, 39–40, 53, 78, 81, 147, 227, 251, 261, 271, 277–278, 280, 282–283, 286, 301
abuse, 40, 42, 50, 52–53, 73
secludedness, 43, 52, 150, 254, 256, 276, 281, 285–286, 294
difficulty of naming meaning of, 5–11, 14–15, 20, 26, 54, 59–60, 62, 64, 67, 70, 80, 113, 133, 144, 175, 185, 188, 190, 202, 210–211, 214, 223, 278, 282, 289–290, 292
duties, 17
enduring character of, 43–44, 47, 49, 53, 74, 112, 144, 171, 173, 177–178, 181, 184, 189, 275
everyday character of, 17, 26, 51, 77, 86, 141, 146, 149–150, 154–155, 159, 161–163, 165–168, 220–221, 224, 233, 237, 243, 254, 256, 260, 272, 274, 279–280, 282, 284, 288–289, 300, 303
idealised status of, 10, 15, 69, 77, 110, 163, 165, 220, 276–277, 290, 300
nostalgia behind, 12, 29–31, 59
impasse in research on, 15, 78, 80, 82–85, 114, 143, 148, 185, 202, 211–212, 215, 223, 225, 262, 279–287, 292–293, 295, 298
Almond, 175
Butler, 106, 110–113, 118, 255
dependency critique, 251–252, 256–257, 270, 278
Franklin, 199, 201
Hegel, 131
Sahlins, 209
Sullivan-Dunbar, 257, 260
in general
speaking of, 6, 11, 13, 20, 27–28, 36–38, 40, 44, 52, 59, 62, 70, 75, 79, 103, 147–148, 151, 169, 210, 271, 290, 293, 301
increased diversity in forms of, 18, 20, 30, 38, 40, 43, 44, 114, 177, 191, 192, 208
inequality in, 25–26, 39
irreplaceable positions in, 24–25, 99, 136, 142, 144
nuclear, 9, 28, 33, 50, 77, 186, 255
modern rise of, 33–34, 192, 263
vs extended, 180, 213
obvious character of, 5, 16, 20, 59, 61–62, 67, 77, 81, 86, 101, 105, 153, 178, 188, 214, 289
privileging its members, 40, 43, 173
rights and duties within, 43, 51–53, 282
seen as declining, 19, 22, 27–31, 170–172, 180–181, 189
criticism of, 31–37, 189
sharing one’s life (world) as, 6–7, 22, 43, 58, 60, 90, 145, 205, 207, 210–211, 224, 226, 279
family novel, 9–11
family tie, 87, 147–152
appeal of, 14, 81, 102, 132, 151, 153–154, 223, 225, 283, 288–289, 294–295, 299–304
and answer to, 5, 85–86, 102, 132, 146, 148–149, 151, 154, 223, 226, 279–280, 295, 298, 300–304
as implying responsibility/care, 5–6, 11, 24, 51, 87, 141, 173, 283, 285, 288, 290, 294, 299
as mystery, 147–148
as revealed under pressure, 6, 62, 81, 86, 145–146, 228
beyond death, 3, 144, 207
despite absence, 3, 24
self-evidence of acting on, 5–6, 81, 98, 147, 188, 289
feminist theory, 200
criticism of Hegel, 116–117, 119, 126, 131–132, 295
on Antigone, 115, 130
ideal of freedom and equality in, 72, 74, 117–118
on Antigone, 103–104, 149
on Hosea, 239
Ferry, Luc, 31–32
Fertig, Georg, 32–34
filial duties, 42, 46
Fineman, Martha Albertson, 251–252
Franklin, Sarah, 112, 190–192, 199–201, 210–211, 224
Fraser, Nancy, 247–251
freedom, see also family, and tension with ideal of freely chosen relations
(contemporary) ideal of, 27, 30–31, 48, 142
and autonomy, 21, 31–34, 40, 43, 71, 114, 169, 206, 211, 223, 244, 250, 252, 254, 261, 270, 273, 279, 281, 290
and equality, 30–31, 75, 117, 250
Hegel on, 135, 138, 140
other side of, 118, 131–133, 140, 152, 155, 169, 222, 245
Fuhs, Burkhard, 35–37
Garrison, Marsha, 47
Giddens, Anthony, 27–31, 36, 111
on democratisation of (family) relationships, 28–29
Gill, Robin, 70–72, 180
givenness, see family, and givenness
Goossens, Wilfried, 119–120, 122
Gordon, Linda, 247–251
Hauerwas, Stanley, 77
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, 158–160, 162, 219–220
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 105, 113, 115–118, 226, 263, 278
on Antigone, 83, 88, 103, 108–109, 115–116, 118–119, 121–122, 125, 127–131, 149
on divine law, 127, 150, 153
vs human law, 121, 123–126, 128–131
on family, 41, 79, 107–109, 154, 270, 272, 274–275, 293
and love, 122, 139
as natural ethical community, 121–129, 131–132
care for the dead, 122–123, 127, 130, 132, 150
vs state, 118, 122, 129, 138, 141
Phenomenology of Spirit, 118, 120–133, 136–137, 139–140
on marital relations, 124–126, 139
on parent-child relations, 124
on sibling relations, 124–126, 129, 137, 139, 150
on woman vs man, 118, 125–126, 130–131, 134
Philosophy of Right, 138–140
historical research
on dependence, 247–249
on family, 31–36, 38, 61–63, 66, 80, 172, 192
Hobbes, Thomas, 44, 51, 250
Holy Family
and morality, 161–165, 167–168
as domestication of the sacred, 159, 166–169, 215
as glorification of the everyday, 163, 167–169, 215
in art, 163–167
in the Bible, 160, 164–166, 168, 219
Honig, Bonnie, 88–89, 98
Hosea, 228–244, see also Keefe, Alice
family imagery
acknowledging God, 233–238, 241–243
adultery, 229–224, 237–238
daily sustenance, 233–237, 242
interdependence of all life, 235, 237–238, 243–244
lived-out, 229–231, 237, 242–243
marriage, 228
parent-child relations, 228, 232–233
restoration of relations, 231, 233–235, 237, 284, 286–287, 292
‘strong image’, 243
fertility imagery, 234–235, 243
Houlgate, Laurence D., 44–46, 49, 51–52
Housekeeping (Robinson), 1–11, 12, 14–15, 24–25, 62, 81, 86, 144–145, 304
Höver, Gerhard, 71
Hoy, Jocelyn, 115, 126, 138
Hutchings, Kimberly, 113, 116, 307
Jeremias, Jörg, 228, 233, 236, 241
Kant, Immanuel, 52, 121, 135, 264
Keefe, Alice
on Hosea, 230, 238–242, 244
family imagery, 239–240, 242
fertility cult, 238–239
political centralisation, 240–242
Kelle, Brad, 236, 238–239
Kemp, Wolfgang, 160–162
King, Jason E., 76
kinship anthropology, 189–215
criticism of kinship as ‘natural’, 189–205, 209, 211, 214, 216
new reproductive technologies, 191–192, 194, 196–202, 211, 215
Kittay, Eva Feder, 244, 246–249, 251, 256, 258–260, 311, see also dependency critique
Koschorke, Albrecht
on Holy Family, 165–169
as un-/limiting, 167–168
Kruijf, Gerrit de, vii, xiv, xv
Lacroix, Jean, 55
on family, 272–279, 284–285, 293
and dependence, 275–276, 278, 285
as mystery, 272, 274–279, 285
confession within, 274–276, 278–279, 285, 301–302
dangers of, 276–277, 285, 301
reticence of, 274, 276–278, 282, 285, 301–302
Laist, Bruno, 265–268
Lenz, Karl, 35
Lieske, Saskia, 70
Locke, John, 44, 51, 250
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 250, 252–256, 260, 283
virtues of acknowledged dependence, 253–255
Marcel, Gabriel, 54–67
on evocation of mystery, 56, 58, 60, 291
by art/literature, 80
on family as mystery, 58, 61–62, 272
and piety, 64–66, 68, 168, 291, 297
in Vichy France, 63–64
on mystery and the sacred, 62, 65–67, 69, 148, 150, 161, 163, 221, 225, 242, 291, 296
on primary and secondary reflection, 56–58, 61, 65
on problem vs mystery, 54–59, 65, 280, 290
marriage/partner relations, 14, 22–24, 28–29, 30, 32, 34, 40, 43, 45–48, 52, 60–61, 70, 72, 75–77, 172, 180, 183–184, 194, 207
based on (romantic) love, 27, 28–32, 37, 44, 52, 75, 77
based on Christ’s love, 183
decline of, 18, 73, 171, 179, 191, 289
Hegel on, 124, 136, 139
increased diversity of, 46
Lacroix on, 275, 278
same sex, 50, 72, 110–111, 172, 177, 271
McCarthy, David Matzko, 77
McClain, Linda C., 46–47, 208
McFall, Michael, 49–50
McKenny, Gerald P., 71
McKinnon, Susan, 34, 112, 190, 192, 194, 212–213
Michaud, Thomas, 57, 66
Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz, 119, 134, 138, 312
Morgan, David H., 27, 192, 204
mystery, see also Marcel, Gabriel
evocation of, 83, 102, 114, 144, 210, 224–225, 282, 284–285, 291
by art/literature, 80, 88, 168, 228, 236, 291
lack of awareness of, 83, 175–176, 178, 185, 189, 211, 223
mystery approach to family, 67, 70, 85, 102–103, 114, 118, 146, 151, 153, 163, 168, 188, 190, 210, 215, 226, 271–272, 281, 292–296, 298–300, 303–304, see also Marcel, Gabriel
and the sacred/transcendent, 67–68, 102, 179, 257, 277, 291, 295–304
arising from impasses, 80, 83, 132, 175, 202, 282
criticism of, 114, 143, 281, 284
on Antigone, 101–104, 114, 132, 149
on Butler, 114
on Ciavatta, 140–142
on dependence, 260, 279–287
on family tie, 147–148
on givenness, 222–224
on Hegel, 131–133
Nussbaum, Martha, 48, 89–90
Nwaoru, Emmanuel O., 229, 239
parent-child relations, 23, 29, 209, 211, 232
risks of, 39–42, 283
parenthood, 39–52, 171, 183, 185
and autonomy of children, 41–42
authority in, 29, 41, 49, 51, 250, 269
biological, 19, 25, 47, 50, 186, 190–192
vs social, 171, 196
duties of, 42, 45, 255
love in, 49, 53
modern, 32
parental rights, 41–42, 45–46, 48, 50
Patterson, Mary, 192, 214
pedagogics/y
on family, 35–37
Schleiermacher, 267–269
personalism, 55, 272
Pierron, Jean-Philippe, 69
Pinsker, Sanford, 7, 11, 24, 59
Preuß, Eckhardt, 266–268
problem (as distinct from mystery)
approach to dependence as, 273, 276, 280–281
approach to family as, 59, 87, 146, 214, 272
procreation/having children, 24, 31, 45, 49–50, 61, 63, 75–77, 177, 194, 198, 201, 222
artificial, 173–174
as a choice, 18, 22–23, 33, 72, 289
as basis of kinship, 190, 203, 205–206, 208, 211–212, 224
of one’s own, 77, 197, 201
Pulkkinen, Tuija, 113, 116, 307
Rawls, John, 40, 50, 250
Rembrandt’s Holy Families
everyday character of, 155–169
sacred in, 161–163, 167, 220
Kassel (1646), 158–161, 219–221, 292
‘strong image’, 219–221
painted frame and curtain, 158–162, 167, 215, 219, 292, 299, 302
profanation, 159, 162, 168
St. Petersburg (1645), 157–158, 160
Richter, Klemens, 164
Robinson, Marilynne, 1, 7–8, 24–25, 59, 304
Rubio, Julie Hanlon, 76
Sabean, David, 33–34
Sachs, H., 155, 164
Sahlins, Marshall, 14, 202–214, 216, 224, 226, 261
‘mutuality of being’, 14, 202–210, 224, 245
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst, 85, 263–272, 274, 276, 284–285, 293
on child-parent relations, 267
on dependence, 263–272
religious, 264–272
within family, 265–271
on marriage, 265–266, 270–271
on parent-child relations, 267–269
Schneider, David, 192–195, 200, 203–204, 212
Scott, Elizabeth S., 47
Seifert, Brigitte, 232
Shapiro, Warren, 212–214
Siep, Ludwig, 119, 121
sociology, 64
on family, 27–39, 70–71
Stafford, Antoinette, 117–118, 132
Steiner, George, 116, 119
Strathern, Marilyn, 194, 195–199, 200, 201, 203, 205–206, 210–211, 223
Sullivan-Dunbar, Sandra, 71, 250–251, 256–260, 263, 277
on dependence upon God, 258–260
Sweetman, Brendan, 57, 78
Swift, Adam, 39–40, 46, 48–49, 51
Szołtysek, Mikołaj, 32–34
Taylor, Charles, 296–302
on sacred claims, 297–300
Teuscher, Simon, 33–34
Thatcher, Adrian, 71–73, 76
Tromp, Thijs, 77
Van Crombrugge, Hans, 267
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 204
Vos, Pieter, 77
Waters, Brent, 71–72, 76–77
Wilson, Robert A., 213–214
Witte Jr., John, 75, 179
Zorgdrager, Heleen, 264, 271

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