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Eric Hoffman rightly points out that there may be a conflict in socializing children and promoting their moral growth, conceiving here of socialization as “the process by which a child is prepared to function in the adult life of a given society.” Both Hoffman and Kohlberg draw the corollary that moral education in an unjust society is “revolutionary.” Thus moral people like Mother Theresa, Solzhenitsyn, and Martin Luther King can be seen as functioning as revolutionaries in largely unjust societies.
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Suter, R. (1982). Comment: Response to “Educating for Justice in an Unjust Society”. In: Cafagna, A.C., Peterson, R.T., Staudenbaur, C.A. (eds) Philosophy, Children, and the Family. Child Nurturance, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3473-6_34
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