Liberalism, Communitarianism and Education: Reclaiming Liberal Education / Edition 1

by Patrick Keeney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754653974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/15/2007
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Patrick Keeney is an independent scholar

Table of Contents

Preface, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 1 The Nature of the Enquiry, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 2 Political Philosophy and Educational Theory, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 3 The Two Liberal Traditions, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 4 The Priority of the Right and the Transcendental Subject, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 5 The Foundations of Right: Liberalism and the Social Contract Tradition, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 6 Liberalism Without Metaphysics: John Rawls and the Moral Subject, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 7 Alasdair MacIntyre: Morality After Virtue, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 8 Charles Taylor: Sources of the Modern Self, Patrick Keeney; Chapter 9 Philosophy of Education and Communitarianism, Patrick Keeney;

Editorial Reviews

’Keeney's book is an interesting contribution to the debate about education.’ Ethical Perspectives

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