Civil Education Thought Of Rawls And Its Enlightenment

As an important part of citizen education system of contemporary liberalism, Rawls’s educational thought which is the inevitable Rawls himself in the analysis of the theory of justice in the process of theory, has a dominant position in Contemporary Western citizenship education. The theory first macroscopically construct the citizen education system to maintain a certain tension between a free and equal citizens and good social order; then taking this system as the guidance, to design a system based on citizen education justice from the micro level, including the goal of civic education, equality and justice as its core, two principles of justice, to the "original position" and "the veil of ignorance" as the ideological citizen education system design complete; finally, Rawls is confident that the civil education thought must be able to form in modern society in the constitutional democracy, a pluralistic society, free and equal citizens how to in their view of the world, and has a stable and fair social life. Civil education thought of Rawls is full of innovation and significance. One aspect of the theory can effectively handle the relationship between citizens and the state; on the other hand, this theory opens up exploration of civic education in the direction of civil education thought. Of course, undoubtedly, defects of Rawls education thought not out of its inherent, has its shortcomings. Generally speaking, Rawls’s education thought is valuable, Rawls to the civic education ideas according to justice, impartiality, justice and public interest should be respected, which in fact of great theoretical significance for our country current civic education has, provides a new perspective for us to examine the citizen education of our country, but also for us to construct a citizen education has a reference template. Creating a new mode of cultivation model, Rawls may hope that the citizens of the world for the contemporary world peace.