Children,Self-knowledge and Cultural Reproduction |
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| Authors: | ELDAR SARAJLIC |
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| Institution: | Correspondence: Eldar Sarajlic, Assistant Professor, City University of New York—Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY. |
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| Abstract: | This article evaluates two most popular normative theories about the reproduction of cultural values through children from the perspective of self-knowledge: Brighouse and Swift's parent-child relationship argument and Clayton's public reason argument. I suggest that while plausible on some grounds, these arguments struggle to accommodate the normative importance of the child's substantive self-knowledge. I propose that we understand cultural reproduction as a learning process and require that children, in addition to cultural content their parents transfer to them, must also acquire knowledge of their own unique personal identity. |
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