"Political, Not Metaphysical": Reading the Bishops’ Letter as a Form of Public Reason

Is it permissible for a citizen or political official to exercise coercive political power on the basis of a political justification associated with a religiously motivated conception of justice? In this paper I accept John Rawls’s general approach to this question, but attempt to show how the Rawls...

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Main Author: Boettcher, James W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2003
In: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2003, Volume: 77, Pages: 205-219
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