Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism : : A Chronicle of Philosophical and Moral Development / / by Dwight R. Boyd.

• Superior document: Moral Development and Citizenship Education
• VerfasserIn: Boyd, Dwight R.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Series: Moral Development and Citizenship Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Integrating scholarly essays and personal reflections, Becoming of Two Minds chronicles a unique philosophical odyssey, a developmental journey of coming to recognize the inadequacy of liberalism in the face of some egregious social problems such as racism, while also appreciating its strengths. A P...

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Nature of This Book
• Part I. Liberalism Unpacked and Exemplified in Moral Education
• Part II. Breaking Out of the Liberal Cocoon: Moves Critical of My Liberal Allegiance
• Part III. Moral Education from the Perspective of Being of Two Minds
• Personal Prologue
• Very Early Impulses
• Early Encounters and Influences
• Major Influences during Graduate Study
• Influences from My Teaching Career at OISE
• Conceptual Moral Distinctions Fundamental to Liberalism as I Interpret It (1977)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• The Moralberry Pie
• The Moralberry Pie Applied to Kohlberg
• The Kohlberg-Rawls Connection: The Moral Core of Liberalism Exemplified in Representatives of Two Disciplines (1980)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• The Right Beginnings
• The Several Sides of Justice
• Persons as Subjects of Respect
• The Principle of Principles (1984)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• The Problem
• Justification of the Concern
• A Closer Look at the Conflict
• The Commonality
• An Alternative
• Concluding Comments
• Moral Education, Objectively Speaking (1989)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• A Refinement of the Problem
• A View of Objectivity
• Implications for the Problems of Objectivism and Subjectivism
• Moral Education, Objectively Speaking
• The Moral Part of Pluralism as the Plural Part of Moral Education (1992)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Circumventing Some Conceptual Confusions for Some Metaphorical Leverage
• Facing Problems of Perspective
• Focusing in a Difficult Direction
• Reconceiving a Philosophical Problem as an Educational Task
• Constructing the Meaning of the Multicultural Mosaic through the Moral Conversation of Education
• A Question of Adequate Aims (1996)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• A Philosophical Focus on Conceptions of “Moral Relationship”
• Problems Resulting from Variation in Conceptions of “Moral Relationship”
• Problems Hidden by Commonality in Conceptions of “Moral Relationship”
• Conclusion
• Dominance Concealed through Diversity: Implications of Inadequate Perspectives on Cultural Pluralism (1996)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• The Dilemma of Diversity
• Popular Perspectives in Response to the Dilemma of Diversity
• Dominance through the Failure of the Three Perspectives
• Conclusion
• The Meaning of Dominance, the Dominance of Meaning, and the Morality of the Matter (2000) (Co-authored with Barbara Applebaum)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Clarification of Focus
• Dominance through Meaning
• Effects on Individuals as Members of Social Groups
• Back to Ourselves: Examples Illuminated by Our Analysis
• Conclusion
• The Place of Locating Oneself(ves)/Myself(ves) in Doing Philosophy of Education (1998)
• Personal Preface
• Prelude
• Introduction
• Question One: How Is Education an Inherently Moral Endeavour?
• Question Two: What Are the Implications of Accepting This Characterization of the Moral Quality of Education for How I Should Understand My Participation in Educational Discourse?
• Interlude
• Question Three: If This Participation Necessitates My Sincere Assumption of the Performative Attitude, from Where Do I Start?
• Question Four: Given That I Am Unavoidably within Social Groups That Are Relationally Defined in Terms of Each Other, Why/How Does This Matter?
• Conclusion
• The Skeleton of Racism in Liberalism’s Closet: Rawls as Suspect (Unpublished)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Instructions to the Grand Jury Regarding the Nature of the Case
• Some Historical Reasons to Worry
• The Contemporary “Test Case” of John Rawls’ Theory of Justice
• A Rawls Primer for the Jury
• A Return to the Critical Evidence
• Summary Statement to the Grand Jury
• What’s Wrong with Sharing Responsibility (Unpublished)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• What May Wants to Do and Why
• May’s Liberal Leanings
• How Conceiving Sharing Responsibility Can Go Wrong
• A Problematic Conflation of Kinds of Groups
• The Latitude of Attitudes
• Hiding as a Racially-Neutral Community Member
• Harmful Limits to Responsible Action: Racing to Innocence and Being Reasonable
• Conclusion
• The Legacies of Liberalism and Oppressive Relations: Facing a Dilemma for the Subject of Moral Education (2004)
• Personal Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Question of Human Subjectivity
• A Metaphorical and Personal Approach to the Commonplace of Individualism
• Vital Characteristics of the Glass Snake of ‘Liberal Individual’ Subjectivity and the Kind of Moral Work They Enable
• Racism as Mob-Like Activity
• The Subjectivity of (Oppressive) Group Membership
• Concluding Comments
• Character Education from the Left Field (2011)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Why the Character Education Movement Should Be Seen as Essentially Conservative
• Character Education When Difference, Conflict, and Justice Are Taken Seriously: What We Get with John Rawls’ Theory of Justice
• A View of Justice and Related Virtues Beyond Rawls
• Conclusion
• Moral Education within Difference: Impediments to Appreciating the Moral Other (2013)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Contextualizing Starting Points
• The Problems
• Liberalism as a Theoretical Framework for Moral Education: Promises and Problems (2013)
• Personal Preface
• Introduction
• Non-Moral Assumptions of Liberalism’s Theoretical Framework
• The Basic Building Blocks of Liberalism’s Normative Framework
• My Assessment of Liberalism as a Theoretical Framework for Moral Education: Promises and Problems
• Reflections on Moral Education
• Conclusion
• References
• Index.