TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling children to learn from religions whilst respecting their rights
T2 - against monopolies of influence
AU - Gheaus, Anca
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/1/16
Y1 - 2024/1/16
N2 - John Tillson argues, on grounds of children’s well-being, that it is impermissible to teach them religious views. I defend a practice of pluralistically advocating religious views to children. As long as there are no monopolies of influence over children, and as long as advocates do not use coercion, deceit, or manipulation, children can greatly benefit without having their rational abilities subverted, or incurring undue risk to form false beliefs. This solution should counter, to some extent, both perfectionist and antiperfectionist reasons against initiating children into religions.
AB - John Tillson argues, on grounds of children’s well-being, that it is impermissible to teach them religious views. I defend a practice of pluralistically advocating religious views to children. As long as there are no monopolies of influence over children, and as long as advocates do not use coercion, deceit, or manipulation, children can greatly benefit without having their rational abilities subverted, or incurring undue risk to form false beliefs. This solution should counter, to some extent, both perfectionist and antiperfectionist reasons against initiating children into religions.
KW - children
KW - domination
KW - nonparents
KW - parents
KW - religious education
KW - value formation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85187498326&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/jopedu/qhae007
DO - 10.1093/jopedu/qhae007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85187498326
SN - 0309-8249
VL - 58
SP - 120
EP - 127
JO - Journal of Philosophy of Education
JF - Journal of Philosophy of Education
IS - 1
ER -