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Public justification and pluralism
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Public justification and pluralism
Yazar:
Ferretti, Maria Paola, author.
ISBN:
9780438085275
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1 electronic resource (216 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08C.
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The thesis is intended as a contribution to the debate on public justification in a liberal society. This debate is primarily lead by theories of political liberalism, which is represented above all in the most recent work of John Rawls. Political liberals oppose to the more traditional epistemic approaches to justification a weaker practical approach, centred on shared values and consensus between reasonable people. As much as possible, contentious moral, religious and epistemological issues should be avoided in political discourse, in order to find common grounds of political agreement for people with various conceptions of the good life. My aim is to offer an alternative to political liberalism, which can account for the osmosis that there is between our metaphysical beliefs and the beliefs that support our public claims, and at the same time maintains the distinction between reasons suitable for public argument and reasons that are not suitable. From Locke's theory of belief reformation as presented in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding I borrow the idea that, for public purposes, persons' beliefs should be regulated on proof, evidence, and probability which, for Locke, is 'likeliness to be truth'. This is because anyone should be able to 'see' the reasons that support public rules or decisions that affect their lives, and none of the beliefs that support those rules should be inaccessible to them. Drawing on Locke's conception of probability, I take it as a criterion that allows arbitration between beliefs that inform public claims. I distinguish between 'givable reasons' (those regulated on probability, and therefore communicable to others) and 'non-givable reasons'(opaque, incommunicable). Only the first are suitable for public justification, whilst the latter inform non-public projects. This is to say that there may be good reasons to pursue a particular private project, even if there are no reasons for the collectivity to take part in it, or to share its goals and values. Endorsing a principle of equal freedom I defend a space in which people can live on the reasons that they have, individually or organised into groups.
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School code: 1543
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