Hand, Michael (2004) Religious upbringing: a rejoinder and responses. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 38 (4). pp. 639-662. ISSN 0309-8249 (print); 1467-9752 (electronic)
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Abstract
In a recent paper in this journal, I asked whether one could consistently ascribe to parents both a right to give their children a religious upbringing and a duty to avoid indoctrinating them (Hand, 2002). The problem, I suggested, is that religious beliefs, since they are not known to be true, cannot be imparted by the presentation of decisive evidence; but to use a form of leverage other than the force of evidence seems to be necessarily indoctrinatory. The solution I proposed to this problem is that parents can impart religious beliefs to their children by the exercise of perceived intellectual authority, for as long as their children freely ascribe such authority to them. The paper has attracted three rather unsympathetic replies from Jim Mackenzie (2004), Peter Gardner (2004) and Charlene Tan (2004). In this brief rejoinder I shall show that none of the replies poses a serious threat to my argument.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Philosophy of education |
| Subjects: | Departments > Education Foundations and Policy Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (1) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2010 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1043 |
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