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Educational Theory > 73 > 3 > 413 - 433
Secondary schools are well placed to avert radicalization processes toward extremism because such trajectories often begin in adolescence. Adolescents are in the process of forming their identities, and most adolescents are idealistic, which makes them susceptible to groups that passionately pursue utopian visions. To avert the path toward extremism, Doret de Ruyter and Stijn Sieckelinck propose to...
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Філософська Думка > 2009 > 1 > 80-96
Plato's formula of 'the domination of intellect' in society implies that only those who have and use true knowledge of the common good should actively participate in rational politics. Now Plato's formula legitimizes authorities that rely entirely on expert knowledge. Critics of 'open society's enemies' often assume that the domination of the intellect is a matter of 'public governing'. The author...
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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice > 2000 > 3 > 3 > 247-262
The author discusses two questions, the relation between liberalism and democracy, and the relation between ethics, morality and law. As to the first question, she argues that neither liberalism nor democracy are merely formal. Roughly spoken, it can be said that liberalism stands for negative liberties, whereas democracy stands for positive ones. She observes a non-contingent tension between the...
