PATERNALISM


Meaning of PATERNALISM in English

noun

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Economists rarely subscribe to the value judgement of whole-scale paternalism .

His lack of charisma and often unhappy persona will contrast sharply with Mandela's awesome humility, humour and stern paternalism .

If the philosophical basis for these inroads into the general principle is paternalism , what legal bases or justifications are there?

Not only did these men share the hardships of combat, their very survival imbued many with a pre-disposition to paternalism .

The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding, of corporate power over paternalism .

The world was less kind to Storni, for whom paternalism provided no protection.

They smacked of mutton-chop whiskers and paternalism .

Yet, when we dig a little deeper, we find simply another style of moral paternalism lies buried beneath the surface.

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