Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland by O'Toole Fintan

Author:O'Toole, Fintan [O'Toole, Fintan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780571289028
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

We shall never know what Machiavelli’s views might have been on the question of the legitimacy of religious schooling. This essay – although drawing broadly on the tradition to which Machiavelli contributed perhaps more than anyone – has had the more modest aim of sketching a rough republican approach to civic virtue in the modern, ethically diverse, political community. Republicans need not be shy in insisting on programmes and strategies that develop independence from the will of others, including independence from the will of kindly and well-meaning parents in respect of something as sacred as their children’s ethical commitments. Needless to say, the moral rights of parents to develop their children’s ethical commitments must always be respected by any state committed to liberty. It is just that such rights are not absolute. And the burden is on proponents of religious schools to demonstrate that such schools are capable of educating citizens towards virtue.

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