Reconstructing Public Reason / / Eric A. MacGilvray.
Can a liberal polity act on pressing matters of public concern in a way that respects the variety of beliefs and commitments that its citizens hold? Recent efforts to answer this question typically begin by seeking an uncontroversial starting point from which legitimate public ends can be said to fo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Task before Us
- I. TOWARD A PRAGMATIC THEORY OF POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION
- 1 The Tyranny of Minimalism
- 2 Prospectivism and “The Will to Believe”
- 3 Narrative and Moral Reasoning
- II PRAGMATISM AND DEMOCRACY
- 4 Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
- 5 Against Deweyan Democracy
- III POLI TICAL LIBERALISM
- 6 Political Liberalism and the Limits of the Political
- 7 Public Reason and Public Institutions
- 8 The Fact of Reasonable Pluralism
- Conclusion: Liberalism after Minimalism
- Index