scholarly journals Liberal Education and Politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
David Bolotin
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Education ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Moral Convictions

St. John’s College tutor emeritus David Bolotin claims that political correctness, with its power to enforce consequences on those who challenge its orthodoxies, has suppressed the reasoned examination of society’s deepest moral convictions.

Pendidikan Islam dan Humanitas

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-355
Author(s):  
Mohammad Liwa Irrubai
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Educational Objectives ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Human Problem

Today, the human problem in social life concerning education is growing more complex; many new ideas emerge as the level of human intellectuality grows. This paper will reveal the current issue of education in Indonesia and discuss ideas from the concept of liberal education. The basic issue of education criticized by liberal education is that education today focuses more on the needs of society than the educational objectives themselves. Education as a tool to transfer science, values, and agents of social change is seen as one alternative solution in the framework of improving people's lives. The education in which values are embodied is one of the efforts offered by genuine liberal education, aimed at giving us the habits, ideas and techniques necessary to continue our own education. Humans have the ability to learn continuously throughout life so that we can prepare ourselves to study and again as long as we are alive.

(Neo)Pythagorean Vision in Thomas More’s Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Yelena Mazour-Matusevitch
Keyword(s):  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Moral Convictions

The inherent utopian tension between the ideal pattern and the earthly reality will be examined here in the context of the Pythagorean tradition, which Utopia shares with Plato’s Republic and Cicero’s De Republica, taken in its widest sense as the vision holding cosmic harmony as a model for organization of human affairs. The article aims to show how this tradition, by means of modification by the Renaissance Neo-Platonists, manifests itself in Utopia, putting to test Thomas More’s moral convictions as well as his faith in Neo-Platonist speculative philosophy.

Race on Both Sides of the Razor

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence D. Keel
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Biological Differences

The proliferation of studies declaring that there is a genetic basis to health disparities and behavioral differences across the so-called races has encouraged the opponents of social constructionism to assert a victory for scientific progress over political correctness. I am not concerned in this essay with providing a response to critics who believe races are expressions of innate genetic or biological differences. Instead, I am interested in how genetic research on human differences has divided social constructionists over whether the race concept in science can be used for social justice and redressing embodied forms of discrimination. On one side, there is the position that race is an inherently flawed concept and that its continued use by scientists, medical professionals, and even social activists keeps alive the notion that it has a biological basis. On the other side of this debate are those who maintain a social constructionist position yet argue that not all instances of race in science stem from discriminatory politics or the desire to prove that humans belong to discrete biological units that can then be classified as superior or inferior. I would like to shift this debate away from the question of whether race is real and move instead toward thinking about the intellectual commitments necessary for science to expose past legacies of discrimination.

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