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Political liberalism: Reasonableness and democratic practice
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In this paper, the authors explore an important concept in the work of the later Rawls, the idea of the reasonable, and conclude that this concept helps to bridge the gap between liberal theory and democratic practice.Abstract:
This paper aims to explore an important concept in the work of the later Rawls: the idea of the reasonable. While the concept has its roots in both Aristotle and Kant, Rawls develops a unique account of the reasonable in the light of his theory of political liberalism. The paper includes Rawlsian responses to the practical challenges of radical democrats on the one hand, and epistemological challenges to the reasonable on the other. It concludes that Rawls’s account of the reasonable helps to bridge the gap between liberal theory and democratic practice.read more
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Kantian Constructivism and Reconstructivism: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue
TL;DR: One regrettable consequence of the split between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy in this country has been a postponement of the encounter between two of the most highly developed and differentiated political theories of our time as mentioned in this paper.
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Incompletely Theorized Agreements
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The domain of the political and overlapping consensus
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the idea of an overlapping consensus and its role in a political conception of justice for a constitutional regime, and allay misgivings about the idea, especially the misgiving that it makes political philosophy political in the wrong way.