Justice and Legitimacy in Upbringing

by Clayton, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780199268948
• ISBN10: 0199268940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

At what age should children acquire adult rights? To what extent are parents morally permitted to shape the beliefs of their children? How should childbearing rights and resources be distributed? Matthew Clayton provides a controversial set of answers to these and related issues in this pivotal new work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Questions of Upbringing	1	(5)
1. Liberal Foundations	6	(42)
1.1 Rawls on Justice and Legitimacy	6	(5)
1.2 Individual Autonomy and Anti-Perfectionism	11	(8)
1.3 Two Objections to Political Liberalism Considered	19	(9)
1.4 A Liberal Conception of Advantage	28	(7)
1.5 The Site of Justice and Legitimacy	35	(13)
2. Childrearing Rights and Their Distribution	48	(39)
2.1 Childrearing Interests and Issues of Justice	49	(3)
2.2 Child-Centred Conceptions	52	(2)
2.3 The Dual Interest View	54	(3)
2.4 The Right to Rear	57	(4)
2.5 Hypothetical Insurance and Childrearing Resources	61	(15)
2.6 The Possession and Exercise of Childrearing Rights	76	(11)
3. Parents and Public Reason	87	(42)
3.1 Comprehensive Enrolment	87	(1)
3.2 Individual Autonomy: End-State or Precondition?	88	(5)
3.3 The Public Reason Restriction	93	(9)
3.4 The Case for the Precondition View of Autonomy	102	(10)
3.5 Arguments for Comprehensive Enrolment Considered	112	(17)
4. Education for Justice	129	(51)
4.1 Political Education and Consent	129	(5)
4.2 Legitimacy via Justice	134	(10)
4.3 The Aims of Citizenship Education	144	(11)
4.4 Questions about Nationality and Global Justice	155	(10)
4.5 Political Education in Non-Ideal Circumstances	165	(15)
5. The Age of Majority	180	(21)
5.1 Equality and Age-Based Discrimination	181	(10)
5.2 The Voting Age	191	(10)
Bibliography	201	(8)
Index	209