Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T13:03:04.369Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

AGAINST SPANKING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2022

James Simpson
Get access

Abstract

In a recent article in this journal (THINK 54), Timothy Hsiao argues that spanking a misbehaving child is morally permissible on the grounds that it's what the child deserves. However, in this short article, I argue that Hsiao's argument in this connection is either obviously unsound or invalid.

Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 21 , Issue 62 , Autumn 2022 , pp. 33 - 37
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 See, for example, Sege, Robert D. and Siegel, Benjamin S., ‘Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children’, Pediatrics 142.6 (2018): e20183112CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

2 Hsiao, Timothy, ‘In Defence of Spanking’, Think 19.54 (2020): 49–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 By ‘typical misbehaving child’ I simply mean that there's nothing importantly unusual, in the relevant moral sense, about the misbehaving child. The misbehaving child isn't, for example, severely cognitively disabled or a nine-year-old that is as mentally, physically and socially developed as an average adult.