In this essay, Jennifer Morton discusses educators as central examples of agents who engage in ideal and nonideal ways of thinking. The educator, as a representative of the political community, is tasked with two aims. The first is nurturing students with the skills and knowledge they need for the world as they will find it. In pursuing this goal, the educator is assuming certain social facts, some of them unjust, that constitute the present nonideal world. The second aim is civic — educating future citizens. Insofar as the educator is involved in pursuing this goal, his or her role is to work at making certain future social facts true, in the hope of making the future slightly more ideal. Morton argues that if we think of these two aims instrumentally, they can come into conflict. She does not suggest a resolution to this conflict, but rather develops an alternative expressive account of the civic role of the educator. Ideal thinking by educators, Morton maintains, should be thought of as constituting an expression of respect toward their fellow citizens here and now. Ultimately, she argues that this expressive component of the educator's job is crucial to the educator's role in the political community.

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教育者的双重角色：在非理想条件下进行教育时表达理想

在本文中，詹妮弗·莫顿（Jennifer Morton）将教育者作为从事理想和非理想思维方式的主体的典型例子进行了讨论。作为政治社会的代表，教育者的任务是两个目标。首先是用世界所需要的技能和知识来培养学生。在追求这一目标时，教育者假设构成当前非理想世界的某些社会事实，其中一些是不公正的。第二个目标是公民-教育未来的公民。在教育者参与实现这一目标的过程中，他或她的角色是努力使某些未来的社会事实成为现实，以期使未来更加理想。莫顿认为，如果我们认真地考虑这两个目标，它们可能会发生冲突。她没有建议解决这一冲突，而是针对教育者的公民角色发展了另一种表达方式。莫顿认为，教育工作者的理想思维应被视为对当下公民的尊重的表达。最终，她认为，教育工作者工作中的这一表现性成分对于教育工作者在政治社区中的作用至关重要。