Educating the Reasonable: Political Liberalism and Public Education

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Terminology
	1.2 Questions for a Political Liberal Account of Education
	1.3 Political v. Perfectionist Liberal Education
	1.4 Aims and Scope
		1.4.1 Cultural and Geographical Limits
		1.4.2 Liberal Sectarian Limits
		1.4.3 Limits of Justice
	1.5 Preview
	References
Chapter 2: Rawlsian Education: Preliminary Observations
	2.1 Education in Rawls’ Work
	2.2 Minimal Civic Education
		2.2.1 Cooperation
		2.2.2 Being Self-Supporting
		2.2.3 Political Virtues
	2.3 The Development of a Political Virtue: The Sense of Justice
	2.4 Education as Object of Public Reason
	2.5 Conclusion
	References
Part I: Central Elements of Political Liberalism
	Chapter 3: Political Virtues
		3.1 Virtues, Excellence, and the Aristotelian Principle
		3.2 The Situationist Challenge
		3.3 Social Norms in Political Theory
		3.4 In Defence of Social Norms
		3.5 Humean Virtues
		3.6 Moral Formation in Virtue Education
		3.7 Indirect Contributions to Virtue Education
		3.8 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Autonomy
		4.1 Varieties of Autonomy
		4.2 Political Autonomy
		4.3 Weak Autonomy
		4.4 Self-Determination
		4.5 Compulsory Education
		4.6 Promoting Autonomy
		4.7 The Range of Possible Life Options
		4.8 Objections to Weak Autonomy
		4.9 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Rights
		5.1 Conceptions of Rights in Political Liberalism
		5.2 Children
		5.3 Parents
		5.4 The State
		5.5 Conclusion
		References
Part II: Application Cases
	Chapter 6: Religion
		6.1 Public and Private Reasons
		6.2 The Burden of Religiousness
		6.3 Religious Reasons as Public Reasons
		6.4 Disaggregation of Religious Reasons
		6.5 Public and Private Schooling
		6.6 Problems of Private Education
		6.7 Education and the Unreasonable
		6.8 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Same-Sex Relations in Education
		7.1 The Tension with Deep Religious Commitments
		7.2 The Assumed Moral Superiority of Heterosexual Relationships
		7.3 Natural Law Theory: A Comprehensive Doctrine
		7.4 Marriage as Unjust Institution
		7.5 Limitations of Political Virtues and Autonomy Requirements
		7.6 Same-Sex Relations, Sex Education and Self-Respect
		7.7 Transgender Students
		7.8 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Immigration and Integration
		8.1 Borders in the Realistic Utopia
		8.2 Utopian Migration
		8.3 Political Status of Immigrants
			8.3.1 Political Virtues
			8.3.2 Autonomy
			8.3.3 Rights
		8.4 Integration
		8.5 Separation
		8.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: Conclusion