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 Personal Prologue describing the main intellectual influences on the author locates the origins of the journey and functions as a backdrop for its interpretation. Fifteen chronologically organized essays, divided into three parts, identify significant positions of contrast between the two minds, establishing the direction of the journey and indications of change. Essays in Part I reflect early allegiance to liberalism and explore its core ideas as they should be interpreted to guide moral education. Those in Part II express disaffection with that allegiance, taking a distinctly critical stance toward liberalism. Part III then consists of essays that represent attempts to come to terms with the becoming of two minds exemplified in the tension between the ideas about liberalism expressed in Parts I and II. A Personal Preface also introduces each of the fifteen essays. These Prefaces address questions such as why the problem of the essay was chosen, why it was approached in a particular way, and what place the essay assumes in the direction the author's journey takes.
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Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.-The Nature of This Book.- Part I. Liberalism Unpacked and Exemplified in MoralEducation.- Part II. Breaking Out of the Liberal Cocoon: Moves Critical of MyLiberal Allegiance.- Part III. Moral Education from the Perspective of Being ofTwo Minds.- Personal Prologue.- Very Early Impulses.- Early Encounters andInfluences.- Major Influences during Graduate Study.- Influences from MyTeaching Career at OISE.- Conceptual Moral Distinctions Fundamental toLiberalism
as I Interpret It (1977).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.-The Moralberry Pie.- The Moralberry Pie Applied to Kohlberg.- TheKohlberg-Rawls Connection: The Moral Core of Liberalism Exemplified inRepresentatives of Two Disciplines (1980).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- TheRight Beginnings.- The Several Sides of Justice.- Persons as Subjects ofRespect.- The Principle of Principles (1984).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.-The Problem.- Justification of the Concern.- A Closer Look at the Conflict.- TheCommonality.- An Alternative.- Concluding Comments.- Moral Education,Objectively Speaking (1989).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- A Refinement ofthe Problem.- A View of Objectivity.- Implications for the Problems ofObjectivism and Subjectivism.- Moral Education, Objectively Speaking.- TheMoral Part of Pluralism as the Plural Part of Moral Education (1992).- PersonalPreface.- Introduction.- Circumventing Some Conceptual Confusions for SomeMetaphorical Leverage.- Facing Problems of Perspective.- Focusing in aDifficult Direction.- Reconceiving a Philosophical Problem as an EducationalTask.- Constructing the Meaning of the Multicultural Mosaic through the MoralConversation of Education.- A Question of Adequate Aims (1996).- PersonalPreface.- Introduction.- A Philosophical Focus on Conceptions of "MoralRelationship".- Problems Resulting from Variation in Conceptions of "MoralRelationship".- Problems Hidden by Commonality in Conceptions of "MoralRelationship".- Conclusion.- Dominance Concealed through Diversity:Implications of Inadequate Perspectives on Cultural Pluralism (1996).- PersonalPreface.- Introduction.- The Dilemma of Diversity.- Popular Perspectives inResponse to the Dilemma of Diversity.- Dominance through the Failure of theThree Perspectives.- Conclusion.- The Meaning of Dominance, the Dominance ofMeaning, and the Morality of the Matter (2000) (Co-authored with BarbaraApplebaum).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- Clarification of Focus.- Dominancethrough Meaning.- Effects on Individuals as Members of Social Groups.- Back toOurselves: Examples Illuminated by Our Analysis.- Conclusion.- The Place ofLocating Oneself(ves)/Myself(ves) in Doing Philosophy of Education (1998).- PersonalPreface.- Prelude.- Introduction.- Question One: How Is Education an InherentlyMoral Endeavour?.- Question Two: What Are the Implications of Accepting ThisCharacterization of the Moral Quality of Education for How I Should UnderstandMy Participation in Educational Discourse?.- Interlude.- Question Three: IfThis Participation Necessitates My Sincere Assumption of the PerformativeAttitude, from Where Do I Start?.- Question Four: Given That I Am Unavoidablywithin Social Groups That Are Relationally Defined in Terms of Each Other,Why/How Does This Matter?.- Conclusion.- The Skeleton of Racism in Liberalism'sCloset: Rawls as Suspect (Unpublished).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- Instructionsto the Grand Jury Regarding the Nature of the Case.- Some Historical Reasons toWorry.- The Contemporary "Test Case" of John Rawls' Theory of Justice.- A RawlsPrimer for the Jury.- A Return to the Critical Evidence.- Summary Statement tothe Grand Jury.- What's Wrong with Sharing Responsibility (Unpublished).- PersonalPreface.- Introduction.- What May Wants to Do and Why.- May's Liberal Leanings.-How Conceiving Sharing Responsibility Can Go Wrong.- A Problematic Conflationof Kinds of Groups.- The Latitude of Attitudes.- Hiding as a Racially-NeutralCommunity Member.- Harmful Limits to Responsible Action: Racing to Innocenceand Being Reasonable.- Conclusion.- The Legacies of Liberalism and OppressiveRelations: Facing a Dilemma for the Subject of Moral Education (2004).- PersonalPreface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The Question of Human Subjectivity.-A Metaphorical and Personal Approach to the Commonplace of Individualism.- VitalCharacteristics of the Glass Snake of 'Liberal Individual' Subjectivity and theKind of Moral Work They Enable.- Racism as Mob-Like Activity.- The Subjectivityof (Oppressive) Group Membership.- Concluding Comments.- Character Educationfrom the Left Field (2011).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- Why the CharacterEducation Movement Should Be Seen as Essentially Conservative.- CharacterEducation When Difference, Conflict, and Justice Are Taken Seriously: What WeGet with John Rawls' Theory of Justice.- A View of Justice and Related VirtuesBeyond Rawls.- Conclusion.- Moral Education within Difference: Impediments toAppreciating the Moral Other (2013).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.- ContextualizingStarting Points.- The Problems.- Liberalism as a Theoretical Framework forMoral Education: Promises and Problems (2013).- Personal Preface.- Introduction.-Non-Moral Assumptions of Liberalism's Theoretical Framework.- The BasicBuilding Blocks of Liberalism's Normative Framework.- My Assessment ofLiberalism as a Theoretical Framework for Moral Education: Promises andProblems.- Reflections on Moral Education.- Conclusion.- References.- Index.
