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Religious parties and the problem of democratic political legitimacy
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The authors consider the history of Europe's religious parties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and find that these parties made a real and lasting contribution to Europe's democratization and their history suggests ways in which Habermas and other defenders of public reason misunderstand the nature of democratic political legitimacy.Abstract:
Thinkers committed to an ideal of public reason are suspicious of religiously informed political activity as it undermines democratic political legitimacy. This paper considers Jurgen Habermas’s recent shifts on this question in light of the history of Europe’s religious parties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These parties made a real and lasting contribution to Europe’s democratization and their history suggests ways in which Habermas and other defenders of public reason misunderstand the nature of democratic political legitimacy.read more
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German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics 1870-1914.
Orville Lee,Helmut Walser Smith +1 more
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Private consciences and public reasons
TL;DR: Greenawalt as discussed by the authors argues that fundamental premises of liberal democracy alone do not provide answers to these questions, that much depends on historical and cultural contexts, and offers concrete suggestions for appropriate principles relevant to American society today.
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The Theory of Communicative Action
Jürgen Habermas,Thomas McCarthy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix, adapted to slideably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides and sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased.
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Why people obey the law
TL;DR: This paper found that people obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, which is the conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study, "People obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority".
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The theory of communicative action
TL;DR: Habermas and Communicative Action as mentioned in this paper The Theory of Communicative Actions is a generalization of the theory of communicative action, which was introduced by Jürgen Habermas.
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Public religions in the modern world
TL;DR: In this article, Casanova surveys the role of religion in the public sphere of modern societies, focusing on five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland, Brazil, and the United States).