ABSTRACT
On the foundation of the methodology described in the previous chapter, the aim of education is identified and defined. This aim is the Critical Citizen who is descriptively communitarian, normatively cosmopolitan, an active participant in one’s society, and a possessor of both rights and responsibilities. This model of the citizen is radical, yet it offers a third way that accommodates the intuitive appeal of both the communitarian and cosmopolitan positions. Similarly, the Critical Citizen incorporates elements of both the traditional debate on citizenship between liberal and republican conceptions of the citizen.
In this chapter, each component of the Critical Citizen is isolated and defended. These elements constructed on top of the methodological foundation established in the previous chapter and operate as the end-in-view of the means employed. This end-in-view, in concert with the method of chapter one, will form the foundation of the enquiry of this book and underpin both the critique of authority and the positive thesis that follow.
