Pluralism, liberal democracy, and compulsory education: Accommodation and assimilation

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 585-609

  Reidy, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 34247750494     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00116     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. See, e.g., Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1992);
2. Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989);
3. and Multicultural Citizenship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995);
4. Jeff Spinner, The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Liberal State (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994);
5. and Iris Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
6. See, e.g., Robert Audi, "The Separation of Church and State and the Obligations of Citizenship", 18 Philosophy and Public Affairs 259 (1989);
7. Amy Gutmann, "Civic Education and Social Diversity", 105 Ethics 557 (1995);
8. Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship;
9. Stephen Macedo, "Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism: The Case of God vs. John Rawls", 105 Ethics 468 (1995);
10. and Spinner, The Boundaries of Citizenship.
11. For a thoughtful but critical examination of this thesis, see Andrew Mason, "Political Community, Liberal Nationalism, and the Ethics of Assimilation", 109 Ethics 261 (1999).
12. See, e.g., Thomas Bridges, The Culture of Citizenship (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994);
13. William Galston, Liberal Purposes (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
14. and Stephen Macedo, Liberal Virtues (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).
15. Harry Brighouse, "Civic Education and Liberal Legitimacy", 108 Ethics 719 (1998).
16. See John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
17. The conception of liberal distributive justice sketched here is common to a great many liberal democratic theorists. The language used is generally that of John Rawls. See Rawls, Political Liberalism.
18. In addition to the well-known case of Wisconsin v. Yoder, discussed and cited in the text below, the courts have addressed diverse accommodationist demands in the educational context. See, for example, Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 827 F.2d 1058 (6th Cir.)
19. cert. den., 484 U. S. 1066 (1988)
20. Runyon v. McCrary, 427 U. S. 160 (1976)
21. Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton, 477 U. S. 619 (1986)
22. For discussion see generally, Note, "The Constitutionality of Home Education Statutes", 55 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 69 (1986);
23. Note, "Missouri Home Education: Free at Last?" 6 St. Louis University Public Law Review 355 (1987);
24. and B. Stocklin-Enright, "The Constitutionality of Home Education", 18 Willamette Law Review 563 (1982)
25. and "Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: New Hampshire's Home School Quandary", 8 Vermont Law Review 265 (1983).
26. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205 (1972).
27. Recent discussions of the philosophical issues raised in the Yoder case include Richard Arneson and Ian Shapiro, "Democratic Autonomy and Religious Freedom"
28. and Shelley Burtt, "In Defense of Yoder: Parental Authority and the Public Schools", both reprinted in Political Order, NOMOS, vol. 38, ed. Russell Hardin and Ian Shapiro (New York: NYU Press, 1996);
29. I should emphasize that, as I discuss below, it is no longer clear that the Court would reach the same result today. See, e.g., Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U. S. 872 (1990)
30. and Flores v. City of Boerne, 521 U. S. 507 (1997).
31. See William Galston, "Two Concepts of Liberalism", 105 Ethics 516 (1995).
32. See Employment Division v. Smith and City of Boerne v. Flores.
33. For discussion of parental rights and compulsory education, see Brian Crittendon, Parents, the State, and the Right to Educate (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988);
34. and Amy Gutmann, Democratic Education (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
35. See also Burtt, "In Defense of Yoder";
36. and Arneson and Shapiro, "Democratic Autonomy and Religious Freedom"
37. I take this claim to be consistent with the argument Susan Okin develops in Justice, Gender and the Family (New York: Basic Books, 1989).
38. see "Two Concepts of Liberalism"
39. See Kymlicka's Liberalism, Community and Culture and the more recent Multicultural Citizenship.
40. For criticisms of Kymlicka's position, see Chandran Kukathas, "Are There Any Cultural Rights?" 20 Political Theory 105 (1992);
41. John Tomasi, "Kymlicka, Liberalism and Respect for Cultural Minorities", 105 Ethics 580 (1995);
42. and Jeremy Waldron, "Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative", 25 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 751 (1992).
43. See San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U. S. 1 (1973).