Simon, Indoctrination and Ethical Relativism

Abstract

Values clarificationist such as Sydney Simon have argued that their method of moral education avoids any indoctrinative practices and hence is a fully sufficient program of moral education. Contrary to such claims however, it seems evident that values clarification suffers from two deficiencies. First, values clarificationists claim at their program is free of moral doctrine in which case I argue the program fails as a program of mor11/ education. Second. there is good reason to conclude that values clarification entails a committment to moral doctrine and a similar commitment to indoctrinative practices.