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Beyond Consensus

Public Reason and the Role of Convergence
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 2013

Summary

Wie kann man ein System des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens erreichen, in dem alle Bürger als frei und gleichberechtigt respektiert werden? Der Autor gibt eine innovative Antwort auf diese Kernfrage der modernen politischen Philosophie und denkt neu über öffentliche Vernunft, die Funktion der moralischen Epistemologie und über öffentliche Legitimierung nach.

Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-3-8487-0506-1
ISBN-Online
978-3-8452-4796-0
Publisher
Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series
Studies in Political Theory
Volume
4
Language
English
Pages
249
Product type
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Table of contents

ChapterPages
  1. Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access 2 - 10
      1. a Varieties of liberalism No access 11 - 13
      2. b Justificatory liberalism No access 13 - 20
      1. a Consensus and convergence No access 20 - 24
      2. b Overview of the argument No access 24 - 28
      3. c Content and method No access 28 - 32
    1. Overview of the argument No access 33 - 34
      1. The Principle of Political Liberty No access 34 - 38
      2. Some misgivings about the presumption in favor of liberty No access 38 - 42
      3. The site of public reason No access 42 - 44
      4. Rejecting the Derivative Justification Thesis No access 44 - 46
      5. The principle of public justification No access 46 - 48
      1. The concept of public justification and its conceptions No access 48 - 49
      2. Strong and weak consensus No access 49 - 53
      3. Private and public reasons No access 53 - 54
      4. Three levels of publicness No access 54 - 56
      1. The role of religious reasons No access 56 - 61
      2. Rawls on the overlapping consensus No access 61 - 63
      3. Deepening the problem No access 63 - 66
      4. Two kinds of defeaters No access 66 - 69
      5. Conclusive justification No access 69 - 71
      6. The Conclusiveness Thesis No access 71 - 73
      7. A first presumption in favor of convergence No access 73 - 74
      1. The Freestandingness Thesis No access 74 - 76
      2. Procedures of abstraction No access 76 - 79
      3. Undermined freestanding reasons are not shareable No access 79 - 81
      4. Rebutted freestanding reasons are not shareable No access 81 - 84
      5. Suspended freestanding reasons are not shareable No access 84 - 85
      6. Weak Shareability Requirement? No access 85 - 88
      7. A twofold presumption in favor of convergence No access 88 - 90
      1. A challenge for consensus No access 90 - 91
      2. Strength-based arguments for consensus No access 91 - 93
      3. Appropriateness-based arguments for consensus No access 93 - 95
      4. Limits of appropriateness-based arguments for consensus No access 95 - 96
    7. Summary No access 96 - 98
    1. Overview of the argument No access 99 - 100
      1. Public reasons as objective reasons No access 100 - 103
      2. Four strength-based arguments for consensus No access 103 - 106
      1. The basic argument No access 106 - 110
      2. Strong externalism No access 110 - 112
      3. Moderate externalism No access 112 - 114
      4. Internalism No access 114 - 117
      1. Open vs. closed justification No access 117 - 117
      2. Open justification and internal coherence No access 117 - 120
      3. Rejecting the top-down argument for consensus No access 120 - 122
      1. The basic (radical) argument No access 122 - 125
      2. Some important remarks No access 125 - 127
      3. Post-metaphysical objectivity No access 127 - 129
      4. Ethical discourses and open justification No access 129 - 133
      1. Are private reasons necessarily defeated? No access 133 - 134
      2. Validity claims No access 134 - 137
      3. The asymmetry between rightness claims and truth claims No access 137 - 140
      4. A discourse-theoretical approach to universalization No access 140 - 143
      5. Discourse theory and epistemic pluralism No access 143 - 144
      1. Rejecting some major arguments for consensus No access 144 - 146
      2. A more moderate defense of consensus? No access 146 - 149
      1. The (alleged) priority of freestanding reasons No access 149 - 151
      2. What defeats what? No access 151 - 154
      3. Back to post-metaphysical rationality No access 154 - 156
      4. The scope of private defeaters No access 156 - 158
    9. Summary No access 158 - 160
    1. Overview of the argument No access 161 - 162
      1. The argument from sincerity No access 162 - 166
      2. Intelligibility and relevance No access 166 - 169
      3. Why the sincerity requirement undermines convergence No access 169 - 173
      4. Why the sincerity requirement does not justify consensus No access 173 - 176
      1. The role of moral epistemology No access 176 - 179
      2. The Commonsense View of Shareability No access 179 - 182
      3. The Meta-Convergence View of Shareability No access 182 - 184
      4. The Political View of Shareability No access 184 - 186
      1. The value of full publicity No access 186 - 190
      2. The role of the public sphere No access 190 - 191
      3. Full publicity as a justificatory device No access 191 - 194
      1. The argument from normative stability No access 194 - 198
      2. The argument from reasonable compliance No access 198 - 202
      1. Framing the issue No access 202 - 205
      2. The Strong Burden Thesis and the Weak Burden Thesis No access 205 - 207
      3. Freestanding rationales and general interests No access 207 - 210
      4. Why the argument from symmetry seems appealing No access 210 - 212
      5. Why the argument from symmetry is misguided No access 212 - 215
      1. The Non-Coercive Rejection Thesis No access 215 - 216
      2. Contested property rights No access 216 - 218
      3. When liberty is not an available default No access 218 - 221
      4. The narrow symmetry objection No access 221 - 223
      5. The Symmetrical Convergence View of Public Reason No access 223 - 225
      1. Against public reason’s Shareability Requirement No access 225 - 226
      2. A further problem No access 226 - 231
    9. Summary No access 231 - 232
  6. Conclusion No access 233 - 240
  7. Bibliography No access 241 - 249

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