ABSTRACT
Indoctrination looks hard to avoid in moral education because of reasonable disagreement about the content and justification of morality. People reasonably disagree about which moral standards they should subscribe to and why they should subscribe to them. The phenomenon of consensus on the content of morality, even in the absence of consensus on its justification, has seemed to some to offer hope of a way out of the indoctrination bind. Perhaps consensus on content opens the door to a kind of second-order justification of morality. If one knows that there are standards to which more or less everyone subscribes, or standards on which most first-order justifications converge, perhaps one has good reason to subscribe to those standards, even if one has yet to pin one's colours to any first-order justificatory mast. An all-roads-lead-to-Rome justification of morality would certainly help with the problem of avoiding indoctrination in directive moral education.
