ABSTRACT
A common idea in much postmodernist social thought is that the tradition of liberal politics we inherit from the Enlightenment is morally defunct because it is inherently chauvinistic. The cardinal values of the liberal tradition have powerful educational implications. The charge of chauvinism against liberalism is typically enmeshed with sceptical claims about reason and knowledge as these have been construed within Western philosophy, and Young’s argument is no exception in that regard. A common education that cultivates the moral discipline of citizenship is as essential to Young’s vision as it is to the liberalism she abjures. Liberal politics offers another accommodation of diversity, one that does not extirpate ethical difference for the sake of a convivial harmony.
