Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a
much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they
should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and
Bush have been joined by the popular press in Enlightenment-bashing
and bitter attacks on 'liberal parenting', calling for a return to
authority and religious tradition.
How do we raise good children? How do we make good citizens? In
defiant yet acute fashion, Stephen Law urges us to re-evaluate the
liberal tradition of thinking about morality. Tackling
authoritarian rhetoric head-on, he argues that children should
learn about right and wrong, and respect for others, but that their
education should be grounded in the hard-won values of the
Enlightenment. Taking on neo-conservatives and religious and media
commentators, The War for Children's Minds is a candid and
controversial call for a liberal, philosophically informed approach
to raising children.
Rejecting accusations that liberal parenting is a Sixties
hangover that entails an aimless 'whatever' attitude to morality,
Stephen Law exposes the weaknesses of arguments calling for a
return to authoritarian styles of moral education. He clearly shows
that thinking for oneself does not mean that all moral points of
view are equally good, or that we must reject faith in order to
think freely.
A staunch defence of the humane, liberal life, The War for
Children's Minds is a much-needed guide to an urgent moral
conundrum.
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