Rescuing Public Justification from Public Reason Liberalism

In David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne & Steven Wall (eds.), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 5. Oxford University Press. pp. 39-64 (2019)
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Abstract

Public reason liberals from John Rawls to Gerald Gaus uphold a principle of public justification as a core commitment of their theories. Critics of public reason liberalism have sometimes conceded that there is something compelling about the idea of public justification. But so far there have not been many attempts to elaborate and defend a ‘comprehensive’ liberalism that incorporates a principle of public justification. This article spells out how public justifiability could be integrated into a comprehensive liberalism and defends the claim that what is worthwhile about public justification can be extracted from public reason liberalism.

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Public justification.Kevin Vallier - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Public justification.Fred D'Agostino - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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