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 ‘public reas...

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Auteur principal: Vietri, Raphaël de (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox Publ. 2009
Dans: Journal for the academic study of religion
Année: 2009, Volume: 22, Numéro: 1, Pages: 64-82
Sujets non-standardisés:B John Rawls
B Epistemology
B Religion
B Public Reason
B Robert Audi
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2047-7058
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v22i1.64