Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community
In his The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and its Limits Christiano defends an idea that democracy has authority because it realizes public equality. According to Christiano, for realization of public equality there is no need for any restriction on the content of reasons we offer ea...
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Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2015-01-01
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| description | In his The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and its Limits Christiano defends an idea that democracy has authority because it realizes public equality. According to Christiano, for realization of public equality there is no need for any restriction on the content of reasons we offer each other to justify laws and policies. In this paper I try to show that there are good reasons to think that boundaries of public reason can more deeply realize public equality in plural society and I also try to defend this view from some criticisms given by Christiano in his book. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6240883323c64282a7c0012da539f9f42024-04-15T13:52:36ZengFaculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, CroatiaAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva1845-67071847-52992015-01-01121456210.20901/an.12.04Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal CommunityNebojša Zelić0Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, CroatiaIn his The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and its Limits Christiano defends an idea that democracy has authority because it realizes public equality. According to Christiano, for realization of public equality there is no need for any restriction on the content of reasons we offer each other to justify laws and policies. In this paper I try to show that there are good reasons to think that boundaries of public reason can more deeply realize public equality in plural society and I also try to defend this view from some criticisms given by Christiano in his book.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/237259democracypublic reasonpublic equalityThomas Christiano |
| spellingShingle | Nebojša Zelić Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva democracy public reason public equality Thomas Christiano |
| title | Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community |
| title_full | Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community |
| title_fullStr | Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community |
| title_short | Public Equality, Public Reason and Liberal Community |
| title_sort | public equality public reason and liberal community |
| topic | democracy public reason public equality Thomas Christiano |
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