Habermas on Rawls and the normative foundations of democracy
| Autor: | Krzysztof Kędziora |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
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| Zdroj: | European Journal of Social Theory. 24:545-561 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7137 1368-4310 |
| Popis: | The debate between Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls concerns the question of how to do political philosophy under conditions of cultural pluralism, if the aim of political philosophy is to uncover the normative foundation of a modern liberal democracy. Rawls’s political liberalism tries to bypass the problem of pluralism, using the intellectual device of the veil of ignorance, and yet paradoxically at the same time it treats it as something given and as an arbiter of justification within the political conception of justice. Habermas argues that Rawls not only incorrectly operationalizes the moral point of view from which we discern what is just but also fails to capture the specificity of democracy which is given by internal relations between politics and law. This deprives Rawls’s political philosophy of the conceptual tools needed to articulate the normative foundation of democracy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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