Paternalism

With paternalism (from Latin pater = " father " ) is a system of rule describes the reasons for its authority and Herrschaftslegitimierung a custodial relationship between ruler / rulers and ruled people outside the family area.

Is colloquially referred to an act as paternalistic when it is directed against the will, but to the welfare of another. Paternalistic regulations are often viewed by the addressees as patronizing.

Examples

The term " paternalism " also called an idea Robert Owens for the solution of the social question in Germany in the 19th century. It refers to the private occupational social policy of big business ( such as Krupp, mute, etc.). These services offered to the workers operating health insurance, occupational pensions, assistance in emergency situations, company housing and factory canteens. Whose goal was to expand the respective operating as a combination of domination and production area as well as a community.

Another characteristic example of a paternalistic ideology forms the self-perception of the slave -holding planters in the southern states of the United States in the 17th to 19th centuries.

The anti-pedagogy sees in every educational effort to attempt to break the autonomy of the child and to submit.

Also be found in today's Western examples of legislation clearly be classified paternalistic regulations. Thus, the seat belt is a piece of legislation that is primarily geared to discourage persons from himself harm. The situation is similar with the legislation in relation to so-called "soft drugs." In the UK, caught in the early 1990s, the tensioner Case stir: it came to the arrest and conviction of Sadomasochists under the offense of assault. Here, the fact was not considered that all parties had acted in mutual agreement.

The relationship between doctor and patient is often described as paternalistic.