The question I am addressing is: In the context of differing conceptions of the good life in a democracy, on what basis can education encourage mutual respect for the beliefs of others without illiberally imposing a particular moral or political view?
To be liberally educated, students would need to be taught to think religiously and secularly about subjects and not merely "to think in secular ways." For instance, students are illiberally "educated," Nord maintains, "if they learn to think about sexuality only in secular categories" (p.
He argues that while this may have been true of states domestically, externally they often behave illiberally, with coercion prioritized over production.
Walzer proposes to give groups greater, but not illiberally stultifying, strength by having government channel cradle-to-grave life cycle services through them, providing more to the poorer groups.
injurious results." (33) Even the liberal subjects can be studied illiberally. For all courses of study the key is what end one has in mind when one undertakes to study: to be truly liberal, the end must be one's own sake, the sake of one's friends, or moral virtue.