Radical personal and systemic social transformation isYou probably know more than I do, that this world needs tremendous help (Trungpa, 2004a, p. 214).
Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that our modern, post‐Enlightenment societies lack the shared standards of moral argument that are prerequisite to productive public debate. He measures our situation against the ideal of an educated public, members of which share enough common ground to resolve disagreements rationally because they have been prepared to participate in disciplined argument by their school and university curricula. This paper identifies questions to be addressed and tasks to be undertaken by philosophers who seek radical school reform in order to help create the intellectual, cultural and institutional conditions for productive public debate.
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