Religion and Public Reason: An Epistemological Interpretation
Using Audi's argument for secular public debate as a starting point, which argues for the exclusion of religion from individuals' public political discourse, this paper argues that it is a fundamental obligation of all citizens in a pluralistic liberal democracy to adhere to a notion of p...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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AASR
[2009]
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Australian religion studies review
Year: 2009, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-82 |
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Summary: | Using Audi's argument for secular public debate as a starting point, which argues for the exclusion of religion from individuals' public political discourse, this paper argues that it is a fundamental obligation of all citizens in a pluralistic liberal democracy to adhere to a notion of public reason'. It does not, however accept Audi and Rawls' interpretations of the notion of public reason uncritically. Through a comparative study of both philosophers' principles, a new interpretation of the notion is put forward which focuses on epistemic sources as the crucial criteria for deciding what counts as public reason. |
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ISSN: | 1744-9014 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Australian religion studies review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v22i1.64 |