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  1. Participation, not paternalism: Moral education, normative competence and the child’s entry into the moral community.Christopher Joseph An - 2020 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 52 (2):192-205.
    Compared with children, adults are widely assumed to possess more mature moral understanding thus justifying deference to their moral authority and testimony. This paper examines philosophical discussions regarding this child-adult moral relation and its implications for moral education, particularly accounts suggesting that the moral status of children constitute grounds for treating them paternalistically. I contend that descriptions and justifications of this paternalistic attitude towards children are either unacceptably crude or mistaken. While certain instances justify paternalistic treatment towards children, in the (...)
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