Public reason, compromise within consensus, and legitimacy

A central idea of public reason liberalism is that the exercise of political power is legitimate when supported only by reasons which all citizens accept. Public reason serves as a necessary standard for evaluating the legitimacy of political decisions. In this paper, I examine the directive to empl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lim, Chong-Ming
Other Authors: Knoll, Manuel
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145141