Moral Education, Moral Responsibility, and Deontic Morality

In this chapter, I explore what it involves to educate for morally responsible agency. To be (held) morally responsible in their later life, children have to acquire the necessary moral competence during their educational process. Educating for morally responsible agency requires, partially but centrally, explicit parental instruction in deontic vocabulary in order to ensure the child’s moral competence acquisition. To make sure that the child matures into a morally responsible agent, certain deontic elements—at least, the concepts of right, wrong and obligatory—must be instilled in the child as parts of its evaluative scheme.

ISBN:978-94-6091-714-1

Publication year:2011