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This paper focuses on recent debates over the nature ofliberalism and its central feature of reason, both inside and outside ofeducational philosophy. Central ideas from Jonathan and Hirst contributeas do those from Rawls, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Taylor, and Ackermantoward a less traditional contextualized and contingent view.
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Halliday, J. Reason, Education and Liberalism: Family Resemblance within an Overlapping Consensus. Studies in Philosophy and Education 20, 225–234 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010365618787
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