On the Limits of Rights and Representation

This essay explores the degree to which public reason can sustain political liberalism's commitment to justice and pluralism without attending to the role of what Jeffrey Stout calls “cultural inheritance” in shaping and justifying political commitments. At issue is whether public reason is the...

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1. VerfasserIn: Johnson, Terrence L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2015, Band: 43, Heft: 4, Seiten: 697-722
weitere Schlagwörter:B John Rawls
B marriage equality
B Stanley Hauerwas
B public reason
B epistemic diversity
B moral problem of blackness
B cultural inheritance
B W. E. B. Du Bois
B affected ignorance
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Zusammenfassung:This essay explores the degree to which public reason can sustain political liberalism's commitment to justice and pluralism without attending to the role of what Jeffrey Stout calls “cultural inheritance” in shaping and justifying political commitments. At issue is whether public reason is the best resource for guiding conversations on political matters that are enmeshed in religious commitments and moral beliefs. Unless public reason can account for cultural inheritance, and foster a deliberative context in which political actors might grapple with the relationship between overlapping political claims and comprehensive doctrines, public reason will remain narrow and inadequate in a contemporary world where epistemic diversity is increasingly at odds with political liberalism's normative model of social cooperation and public deliberation.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12118