Civic Education and Liberal Legitimacy  

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Brighouse, Harry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 108 no. 4 (Jul. 1998), page 719-745.
Topik: Civic; Education; Liberal; Legitimasi; Doctrine;

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.7 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Liberalism is potentially a precarious doctrine. It not only specifies principles of justice which prescribe how individuals should treat ecah other, but also contains an independent condition of legitimacy, proclaiming that justice must not only be done but must freely be affirmed by the citizens whose behavior the liberal state aspires to regulate. So something is puzzling about the idea that liberal states may regulate the educational curriculum by mandating a civic education aimed at inculcating the values on which liberalism is based and behaviors which sustain it. If the state helps form the political loyalties of future citizens by inculcating belief own legitimacy, it will be difficult to be confident that their consent is freely given, or would have been freely given. Just a troubling, it might seem, is the idea that the state should take explicit hand in trying to form the ways of life that children come to adopt, by manadating the promotion of autonomy in the educational in general is relatively uncontroversial among contemporary liberal theorist, its content is disputed. In partiular, the idea that the state should require a curriculum designed to each the skills associated with autonomy is controversial, with some liberals arguing that it is entirely impermissible, and others that it is an essential part, or an unvoidable side effect, of civic education.

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