Self-direction, values and truth: Towards an unpostmodern re-examination
Carr D.
2000
Journal of Philosophy of Education
2
10.1111/1467-9752.00174
Despite its exalted status in post-war analytical educational philosophy as probably the main aim of liberal education, the basic philosophical psychology of autonomy or self-determination is prey to certain not widely acknowledged conceptual difficulties. In relation to this problem, the present paper explores different conceptions of evaluation and competing liberal and communitarian conceptions of rational choice and decision, to the ultimate end of defending a crucial connection - discerned by many ancient and modern philosophers - between rational self-direction and the possibility of objective knowledge and truth.
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