Public reason

Author(s)

• D'Agostino, Fred
• Gaus, Gerald F.

Bibliographic Information

Public reason

edited by Fred D'Agostino and Gerald F. Gaus

（The international research library of philosophy, 21 . The philosophy of value）

Ashgate, c1998

• : hardcover

Note

Collected essays from English-language journals

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The essays that make up this volume, explore the idea of "public reason". The task of identifying a distinctively public reason has become pressing in our deeply pluralistic society, just because doubt has arisen whether what is good reasoning for one must be good reasoning for all. Examining the theories of Hobbes and Kant, and also using more recent work such as the comments and theories of John Rawls and David Gauthier, this book explores aspects of the idea of public reason. It explains public reason, and discusses areas such as pluralism, reasonable disagreement, moral conflict, political legitimacy, public justification and post-modernism.

Table of Contents

• "The domain of the political and overlapping consensus" (New York University Law Review), John Rawls
• "why dialogue?" (Journal of Philosophy), Bruce Ackerman
• "public reason" (Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation), David Gauthier
• "Kantian politics - the public use of reason" (Political Theory), Onora O'Neill
• "toward a deliberative model of democratic legitimacy" (Democracy and Difference), Seyla Benhabib
• "Kantian constructivism and reconstructivism - Rawls and Habermas in dialogue" (Ethics), Thomas McCarthy
• "constrained discourse and public life" (Political Theory), J. Donald Moon
• "the rational, the reasonable and justification" (Journal and Political Philosophy), Gerald F. Gaus
• "moral conflict and political legitimacy" (Philosophy and Public Affairs), Thomas Nagel
• "the ideal of community and the politics of difference" (Social Theory and Practice), Iris Marion Young
• "pluralism and reasonable disagreement" (Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation), Charles Larmore
• "public reason and cultural pluralism - political liberalism and the problem of moral conflict" (Political Theory), James Bohman
• "value pluralism, public justification and post-modernism - the conventional status of political critique" (Journal of Value Inquiry), Fred D'Agostino
• "the reasons we can share - an attack on the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral values" (Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation), Christine M. Korsgaard
• "constructing an ideal of public reason" (San Diego Law Review), Lawrence B. Solum
• "the politics of justification" (Political Theory), Stephen Macedo
• "the limits of public reason" (The Journal of Philosophy), Bruce W. Brower
• "public practical reason - an archaeology" (Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation), Gerald J. Postema.

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Details

• NCID: BA38343218
• ISBN:
  • 1855219549
• LCCN: 97037026
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt.
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 470 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JA71
  • DC21 : 320/.01/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Political science -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Justification (Theory of knowledge)
  • LCSH : Reason
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2010033X