다원주의 사회에서 사회계약론적 정의의 시민교육적 함의

Abstract

The world society today is pluralistic in character. Therefore, social studies must investigate resolution of their social conflicts. My thesis is to argue that social studies should pay attention to minimum universality in pluralistic society and this is the problem of justice and it is made possible by social contract. In chapter 2, I first trace two perspectives on justice in pluralistic society. About this, there are two contrasting perspectives : Rawls's political liberalism and liberal pluralism including radical pluralism. Rawls's Liberalism provides justice in reasonable pluralism. But he is criticized for biasing liberal value. Meanwhile, liberal pluralism recognizes diverse cultural identities and explore minimum universality. But it is criticized for emptyness of the concept of minimum universality. For that, I propose the approach of social contract theory. In chapter 3, I explore the history of social contract. And I will prove that the approach of social contract is appropriate on agreement about justice in pluralistic society. In chapter 4, I consider the relation between citizenship education and justice in pluralistic society. When we reflect on the goal of citizenship education, social studies must center on the virtue of justice. For the education of justice, we must focus on legal education. But legal education must concentrate on the cultivation of legal mind. Focused on legal knowledge, contemporary legal education is regarded as boring and difficult to understand by students.