Autonomy, Community, and the Justification of Public Reason

Recently, there have been attempts at offering new justifications of the Rawlsian idea of public reason. Blain Neufeld has suggested that the ideal of political autonomy justifies public reason, while R.J. Leland and Han van Wietmarschen have sought to justify the idea by appealing to the value of p...

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Published in:Canadian journal of philosophy 2024-05, Vol.53 (4), p.336-350
Main Author: Andersson, Emil
Format: Article
Language:English
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Filosofi
John Rawls
Philosophy
political autonomy
political community
public reason
reasonableness
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Summary:Recently, there have been attempts at offering new justifications of the Rawlsian idea of public reason. Blain Neufeld has suggested that the ideal of political autonomy justifies public reason, while R.J. Leland and Han van Wietmarschen have sought to justify the idea by appealing to the value of political community. In this paper, I show that both proposals are vulnerable to a common problem. In realistic circumstances, they will often turn into reasons to oppose , rather than support, public reason. However, this counterintuitive result can be avoided if we conceive of autonomy and community differently.
ISSN:0045-5091
1911-0820
1911-0820
DOI:10.1017/can.2024.18