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Democratic Values Education Reconsidered: A Moral Realist Case
Author(s) -
Puolimatka Tapio
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00227
Subject(s) - democracy , values education , moral education , moral development , sociology , value judgment , philosophy of education , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , pedagogy , political science , higher education , philosophy , politics , law
Gary Dann criticises my argument that democratic values education requires a moral realist framework. In this paper I argue that Dann's critique contains three basic confusions: (1) He assumes that moral realism necessarily implies evidentialism. (2) He assumes that moral realism gives priority to philosophical thinking as over against common sense reasoning. (3) He forgets that realism is primarily an ontological rather than an epistemological doctrine.