Provides a critique of MacIntyre's thinking about education, particularly his educational project Explains why the cultivation of rationality is central to MacIntyre's educational project Outlines the reasons why MacIntyre is against education of our age

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Prelims. - Chapter 1. The genesis of MacIntyre's educational project: A democratic culture and community of critical enquiry. - Chapter 2. MacIntyre's restoration of rationality: the essence of human nature is reason. - Chapter 3. MacIntyre's enlightenment educational ideal: cultivating rationality and contemporary discourse through controversy and constrained disagreement. - Chapter 4. MacIntyre's educational project applied: cultivating independent rational agents with virtuous dispositions.