Justice and Education  

Oleh:

Brosnan, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Research in Education vol. 1 no. 2 (Jul. 2003), page 245–264.
Topik: Brighouse; education; justice; public reasons; rational inquiry; Rawls
Fulltext: 245TRE12.pdf (95.5KB)

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In asking whether a given view about education is justified, two distinct questions arise. The first asks whether a given educational program meets its intended end. The second asks whether a given end is an appropriate one for any such program to seek. Harry Brighouse has recently argued that children should be taught the skills and methods of rational inquiry. In this article, I argue that his instrumental justification is not compelling. Independently of this, the end that Brighouse charges schools with pursuing – providing children with equal opportunity to live well – is not, I argue, justified non-instrumentally. I argue that every noninstrumental justification must be given in terms of Rawlsian public reasons and that Brighouse's is not. After establishing this, I provide such a justification for my view, which is that schools should provide children with equal opportunities for developing an ability to revise rationally conceptions of the good, in part, by teaching the skills and methods of rational inquiry. In closing, I consider communitarian- based objections to both Brighouse's view and my own, concluding that none of them succeed.

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