Beyond Consensus: Public Reason and the Role of Convergence

Enrico Zoffoli

doi:10.5771/9783845247960

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.

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Edition: 1/2013
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: Book Titles

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