The Normative Thoughts of Parental Love, Part II: Other-restricting Normative Beliefs

In the last chapter, I discussed the self-restricting normative thoughts of parental love. I showed in the process how the Aristotelian model can accommodate a strong sense of obligation—one that reflects a set of priorities that solves the integration problems of the agent of integrity who is both respectful and parentally loving. Moreover, the analysis was applied across a wide range of contexts and revealed that the regulative functions of parental love and self-respect are symmetrical in their regulative effects. The deficiency of the Kantian model was shown to be that it cannot accommodate the function of parental love