Public reason

About: Public reason is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1207 publications have been published within this topic receiving 19486 citations.

The Idea of Justice

Abstract: * Preface * Acknowledgements * Introduction: An Approach to Justice Part I: The Demands of Justice * Reason and Objectivity * Rawls and Beyond * Institutions and Persons * Voice and Social Choice * Impartiality and Objectivity * Closed and Open Impartiality Part II: Forms of Reasoning * Position, Relevance and Illusion * Rationality and Other People * Plurality of Impartial Reasons * Realizations, Consequences and Agency Part III: The Materials of Justice * Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities * Capabilities and Resources * Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities * Equality and Liberty Part IV: Public Reasoning and Democracy * Democracy as Public Reason * The Practice of Democracy * Human Rights and Global Imperatives * Justice and the World * Notes * Name Index * Subject Index

"The Law of Peoples: With" The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,"

Abstract: This work consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993 Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism anon some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls The first essay explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in "Political Liberalism" (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse it is rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine - such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "justice as fairness", presented in "A Theory of Justice" (1971) The second essay extends the idea of a social contract to the society of peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behaviour toward one another In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society", and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavourable political and economic conditions

Democracy in the European Union: Integration Through Deliberation?

Abstract: 1. Post-national integration Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum 2. Beyond the Nation-State? On Some Consequences of Economic Globalization Jurgen Habermas 3. Deliberative Supranationalism in the EU Erik Oddvar Eriksen 4. The Uses of Democracy: Reflections on the European Democratic Deficit Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione 5. Subsidiarity and Democratic Deliberation Andreas Follesdal 6. Constitution-making in the European Union John Erik Fossum 7. The Anonymous Hand of Public Reason. Interparliamentary Discourse and the Quest for Legitimacy Lars Chr. Blichner 8. Challenging the Bureaucratic Challenge Christian Joerges and Michelle Everson 9. Demanding Public Deliberation. The Council of Ministers: Some Lessons from the Anglo-American History Roberto Gargarella 10. Can the European Union Become a Sphere of Publics? Philip Schlesinger and Deidre Kevin 11. Indigenous Rights and the Limitations of the Nation State Else Grete Broderstad 12. Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum Conclusion Bibliography