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RELATIVISM, AMERICAN EDUCATION, AND DEMOCRACY
Author(s) -
Lawler Peter Augustine
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1989.tb00264.x
Subject(s) - relativism , democracy , soul , socrates , closing (real estate) , political science , epistemology , philosophy , law , politics
I want to consider a few of the challenges relativism poses to American educators. The thought has been present in the world, since the time of Socrates, that relativism is perhaps the obstacle in a sophisticated, democratic regime to genuinely thought‐provoking and soul‐forming education. This thought has been reinvigorated impressively by Allan Bloom's justly celebrated and genuinely controversial The Closing of the American Mind. 1