ETIČKO UTEMELJIVANJE LIBERALIZMA I LIBERALNOG ODGOJA
ETHICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LIBERALISM AND LIBERAL EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the need for establishing in terms of ethics the liberal concept of education and Iiberalism. The work enters the mutually opposed debates about the possibility of combining (reconciling) liberalism and universalia (the concept of common good). Thus, for example, while J. Rawls maintains that the liberal state concept cannot be ethically established, due to the fact that justice cannot be explained by any universal moral structure, J.Raz emphasises exactly the opposite, that the objective of all political activity is to enable individuals to follow proper concepts of good. A lack of the ethical concept of freedom of will, without which the autonomy of the individual cannot be realized - namely, the liberal concept of society, produces nothing but the testing of freedom, which usually results in all kinds of arbitrariness and violence over others. The same can be said of the the liberal concept of education. Without being founded on values, the liberal education only puts to test the possibilities of "genetic determinism".

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