Civic Education And The Ideal Of Public Reason
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
5-1-2015
Published In
Social Philosophy Today
Abstract
Meira Levinson argues for a robust civics education that models the practices of good citizenship. One of the elements of that civics education is teaching students how to take up the perspectives of others. The question arises: how do we teach students and citizens alike to take up the perspectives of others? Here I argue that we can make sense of perspective-taking by appealing to Rawls’s notion of public reason as an ideal. I conclude by arguing that a commitment to the ideal of public reason can help identify and resist oppression and marginalization.
Recommended Citation
Krista Karbowski Thomason.
(2015).
"Civic Education And The Ideal Of Public Reason".
Social Philosophy Today.
Volume 31,
177-182.
DOI: 10.5840/socphiltoday201551817
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-philosophy/322