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US
/pəˈtɝnəˌɫɪzəm/
]
[ UK /pətˈɜːnəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /pətˈɜːnəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
How To Use paternalism In A Sentence
- He remained throughout his life motivated by an abiding belief in the twin myths of racial paternalism and national mission.
- An act of paternalism, in short, overrides the value of autonomous choice on grounds of beneficence. The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics
- Reform everywhere was initiated from above; Enlightenment sovereigns perpetuated the paternalism of the previous century's absolutist princes.
- He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
- This kind of paternalism will not solve the problem.
- The paternalism of scientific positivism coincides directly with capitalist culture's feminizing of amateurism.
- Thanks to your misguided paternalism, racial tension will always be front and center.
- Not only did these men share the hardships of combat, their very survival imbued many with a pre-disposition to paternalism.
- Extreme paternalism is a parasite sucking on a dry host, it will tend to allow some capitalism to fatten up its victim. Incumbents and Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- For public health policy to be realised, paternalism must be replaced by active encouragement of patients to participate in their own care.