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Public Reason and Child Rearing: What's a Liberal Parent to Do?
Author(s) -
Arjo Dennis
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1111/1467-9752.12075
Subject(s) - odds , child rearing , economic justice , context (archaeology) , sociology , liberalism , control (management) , politics , social psychology , philosophy of education , psychology , developmental psychology , law , higher education , political science , logistic regression , medicine , paleontology , management , economics , biology
The ways in we raise and educate children can appear to be at odds with basic liberal values. Relationships between parents and children are unequal, parents routinely control children's behaviour in various ways, and they use their authority to shape children's beliefs and values. Whether and how such practices can be made to accord with liberal values presents a significant puzzle. In what follows I will look at a recent and sophisticated attempt to resolve these tensions offered by M atthew C layton in his book Justice m Child Rearing in the context of general account of the proper limits of parental authority. I argue that C layton is unsuccessful in ways that point to fundamental and pervasive questions about the place of liberal values in child rearing and education that remain unanswered.