Liberalism, Citizenship, and the Private Interest in Schooling

Studies in Philosophy and Education

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 221-229

  Strike, Kenneth A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Liberalism; Rawls; Schooling

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EID: 54649084519     PISSN: 00393746     EISSN: 1573191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005118509584     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Some worthy examples are Callan, Eamonn. "Political Liberalism and Political Education." Review of Politics 58. no. 1 (1996): 1-33,
2. Gutmann, Amy. "Civic Education and Social Diversity." Ethics 105, no. April 1995 Number 3 (1995): 557-579;
3. Macedo. Stephen. "Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism: The Case of God v. John Rawls." Ethics 105. no. April 1995 Number 3 (1995): 468-497;
4. McLaughlin, Terence H. "Liberalism, Education, and the Common School." Journal of Philosophy of Education 29. no. 2 (1995): 239-255.
5. Gutmann. Amy. "Democratic education". (1987)
6. Gutmann, p. 103.
7. Here the idea of public education or of public schooling is to be understood as it is in the United States. Public schools are government operated common schools.
8. Gutmann, p. 123.
9. Rawls. John. Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
10. This seems to be Rawls's view. See his discussion at pp. 199, 200.
11. Callan, Camonn. "Political Liberalism and Political Education." Review of Politics 58, no. 1 (1996): 1-33.
12. I think it is likely that Gutmann and Callan would agree with this. If I have a quarrel with them, it is that the need to strike a balance is not always apparent in their argument.
13. Strike, Kenneth A. "Must Liberal Citizens be Reasonable." Review of Politics 58, no. 1 (1996): 41-48.
14. Rawls (p. 19) characterizes the two moral powers as a capacity for a sense of justice and a capacity for a conception of the good together with the capacities for judgment, thought and inference connected with the exercise of these powers.
15. Here I use 'reasonable' roughly as Rawls does. A doctrine is reasonable when it enables its adherents to respect one another as free and equal citizens and to respect reciprocity. I will use the term 'coherent' to refer to those features of comprehensive doctrines that render them plausible (minimally worthy of belief) and functional in people's lives.
16. Rawls, pp. 159. 160.
17. Rawls. p. 58.
18. See Rawls's discussion of civic humanism, p. 206.
19. Rawls, p. 58.
20. Thus, for me, the notion of a vision of a good life is closer to Rawls's notion of an individual's rational life plan. See Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1971. 1 do not believe that there is a disagreement here, only that my vocabulary is clearer for my purposes.
21. Mill John Stuart. On Liberty. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, inc., 1956, 64.
22. Appiah, K. Anthony. "Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural societies and Social Reproduction." In Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994, p. 160.