What (who) is paternalist - definition

ACTION LIMITING A PERSON’S OR GROUP’S LIBERTY OR AUTONOMY INTENDED TO PROMOTE THEIR OWN GOOD

Paternalistic; Paternalist; Parentalism

paternalist

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A paternalist is a person who acts in a paternalistic way.

Primo de Rivera himself was a benevolent and sincere paternalist.

N-COUNT

Paternalist means the same as paternalistic
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...a paternalist policy of state welfare for the deserving poor.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

paternalistic

Someone who is paternalistic takes all the decisions for the people they govern, employ, or are responsible for.

The doctor is being paternalistic. He's deciding what information the patient needs to know...

ADJ

Paternalism

·noun The theory or practice of paternal government. ·see Paternal government, under Paternal.

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Paternalism

Paternalism is action that limits a person's or group's liberty or autonomy and is intended to promote their own good. Paternalism can also imply that the behavior is against or regardless of the will of a person, or also that the behavior expresses an attitude of superiority. Paternalism, paternalistic and paternalist have all been used as a pejorative for example in the context of societal and/or political realms and references.

Some such as John Stuart Mill think paternalism to be appropriate towards children, saying:

"It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood."

Paternalism towards adults is sometimes thought of as treating them as if they were children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalism

Pronunciation examples for paternalist

1. state, that bloated, paternalist, out of control,

Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea _ Mark Blyth _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of paternalist

1. Its privatisation is a symbol of Mr Koizumi‘s drive to reform Japan‘s public sector and reduce the government‘s paternalist role in the economy.

2. The first has been a liberal or libertarian conservatism concerned with free markets, localism and private property; the second a paternalist conservatism that has prioritised community and social stability.

3. Maybe, in their own modern way, they are simply reverting to type, pushing their party to become once again a paternalist force on the centre–right, chiefly interested in the acquisition of power.

4. M Lambert and most other fear theorists are modernisers who blame political leaders of both the left and right who have lacked the courage to tell France that its paternalist state cannot survive the free world market.

5. If anything, we are witnessing another step toward a paternalist conception of a state that tells us what we are allowed to do and how we are supposed to live our lives.