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- Title
The Very Idea of an Educated Public: On Philosophical Education and MacIntyre's Project.
- Authors
MUELLER, NATHAN ALEXANDER
- Abstract
In this paper, I aim to reconsider MacIntyre's notion of an educated public. In particular, I aim to do so in light of his recent elucidation of the role of philosophical education in rejecting, or at least challenging, predominant and shared cultural assumptions. I begin by outlining MacIntyre's original case for an educated public as found in The Idea of an Educated Public. I then briefly consider and respond to three prominent criticisms of MacIntyre's original explication of the notion. In responding to these criticisms, it will be made clear that subtle shifts in MacIntyre's subsequent treatments of the notion reduces the dependency of such a public's existence on the university. I conclude by arguing that the development in MacIntyre's articulation of the necessary conditions for an educated public when considered in conjunction with his recent defence of the conditions for an 'adequate philosophical education' provides his philosophy of education with the conceptual resources needed to break free of a final difficulty which MacIntyre himself has articulated. Specifically, I contend that the four stages of an adequate philosophical education MacIntyre outlines are such that they need not be restricted to implementation in formal educational institutions such as the university.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY education; PHILOSOPHY of education; MACINTYRE, Alasdair C. (Alasdair Chalmers), 1929-; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; CULTURAL assumptions
- Publication
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 1, p94
- ISSN
0309-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9752.12313