Communitarian thinkers have identified important deficiencies in liberal thought, in particular the limits of the account of justice given in liberal theories. This book makes transparent for the reader the implications that the liberal account of justice has for our ways of thinking about education. Citing the work of John Rawls as the principal expression of contemporary liberal thought, Keeney argues that there are certain intractable tensions between the view of the individual given in rights-based theories of justice and a certain valuable conception of education, which in the West has traditionally been termed a "liberal" or "general" education and concludes that ideals of a liberal education are only available to a political ethic which is capable of articulating a public conception of virtue and the good.
Author(s): Patrick Keeney
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 169
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 The Nature of the Enquiry......Page 12
2 Political Philosophy and Educational Theory......Page 30
3 The Two Liberal Traditions......Page 44
4 The Priority of the Right and the Transcendental Subject......Page 56
5 The Foundations of Right: Liberalism and the Social Contract Tradition......Page 66
6 Liberalism Without Metaphysics: John Rawls and the Moral Subject......Page 86
7 Alasdair MacIntyre: Morality After Virture......Page 108
8 Charles Taylor: Sources of the Modern Self......Page 126
9 Philosophy of Education and Communitarianism......Page 148
Bibliography......Page 164
P......Page 168
W......Page 169
