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27Hegel and Honneth’s Theoretical Deficit: Education, Social Freedom and the Institutions of Modern LifeHegel Bulletin 38 (2): 293-317. 2017.The accounts of social freedom offered by G. W. F. Hegel and Axel Honneth identify the normative demands on social institutions and explain how individual freedom is realized through rational participation in such institutions. While both offer normative reconstructions of the market economy, public sphere and family, they both derive the norms of educational institutions from education’s role in preparing people for participation in other institutions. We argue that this represents a significan…Read more
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22Ends, principles, and causal explanation in educational justiceEthics and Education 12 (2): 184-200. 2017.Many principles characterize educational justice in terms of the relationship between educational inputs, outputs and distributive standards. Such principles depend upon the causal pathway view of education. It is implicit in this view that the causally effective aspects of education can be understood as separate from the normative aspects of education. Yet this view relies on an impossible division of labor between empirical and normative work in educational research: it treats the causal roles…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |