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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 4, Pages: 697-722 |
| Further subjects: | 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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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12118 |