"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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2003
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2003, Volume: 77, Pages: 205-219 |
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