To whom do children belong? : parental rights, civic education, and children's autonomy / Melissa Moschella, the Catholic University of America.
2016
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Title
To whom do children belong? : parental rights, civic education, and children's autonomy / Melissa Moschella, the Catholic University of America.
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Call Number
LC225.3 .M67 2016
ISBN
9781107150652 (hardback)
1107150655 (hardback)
1107150655 (hardback)
Description
xi, 198 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)928751247
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Foundational premises
9
Theory of value and normative ethics
10
Obligation
14
Rights
17
Authority
18
1.
Parent-child bonds, special obligations and parental authority
21
Why not raise children communally?
23
Insights from Aquinas and Aristotle
25
Personal relationships and special obligations
29
biological parent--child relationship as a source of non-transferable obligations
34
Parental obligations as personal obligations to raise one's children
38
Conclusion
45
2.
Parental rights as conscience rights
49
right to integrity
50
Integrity and parental rights
56
Rights as spheres of authority
61
Scope and limits of parental rights
63
Parental authority over moral and religious education
64
family as analogous to a sovereign state
66
When should the state intervene?
68
counterargument
69
Conclusion
72
3.
Parental rights and education for liberal democratic citizenship
74
Three arguments for mandatory Rawlsian civic education
76
Stephen Macedo's civic liberalism
76
Eamonn Callan on creating citizens
80
Amy Gutmann on education for conscious social reproduction
82
Liberalism and the protection of diversity
84
requirements of citizenship
90
Public reason and liberal legitimacy
98
Tolerating diverse understandings of citizenship
103
Defining the boundaries of tolerance
108
Conclusion
116
4.
Parental rights and children's autonomy
119
Evaluating arguments for mandatory autonomy education
122
minimal threshold of autonomy as necessary for a good life
122
Autonomy as instrumentally valuable for leading a good life
127
Moral virtue, autonomy and the good life
129
Aristotelian account of the moral prerequisites for autonomy
133
Application of the Aristotelian account to the issue of autonomy education
137
Conclusion
144
5.
Policy implications
147
Overview
147
Policy implications
153
Exemptions and accommodations
154
Wisconsin v. Yoder
154
Mozert v. Hawkins
159
Are exemptions unfair?
161
Sexual education
167
Public schools and school funding
172
Conclusion
179
Bibliography
181
Index
191