Aurélia Bardon
Biographic Data
| ID | 487876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurélia Bardon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurélia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bardon |
| SIGNATURE | BARDON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3325-0458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Knows Best? Religious Expertise in Making Decisions about Religion
When it comes to making political decisions about religion, decision-makers often rely on the testimonies of two kinds of religious experts: religious leaders and academic experts of religion. While such religious experts have epistemic authority for questions of religious identification and religious orthodoxy, their expertise is the wrong kind in a religiously neutral state. Questions of religious identification unfairly treat religion as being…
Public reason and food policy
People differ widely in their eating habits. This often reflects fundamental disagreements among their conceptions of the good as these relate to health, culinary traditions, animals’ interests, and so on. How laws regulating food production, distribution, and consumption can be legitimate despite such pluralism is an important question, and we welcome Josh Milburn’s and Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s attempts to show how public reason libera…
Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity
When generally applicable rules clash with one’s cultural, religious or moral commitments, should exemptions be granted? The debate on exemptions raises the question both of what it means to treat people equally and of what it means to protect diversity adequately. The objective of this paper is to defend the no-exemption argument and to make it a more attractive position for liberals. I first argue that exemptions violate the principle of equal …
Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection
Calls for civility feature prominently in public discourse, and the concept has received growing attention by political philosophers recently. But what does it mean to be civil? The existing literature distinguishes between two main understandings of civility: civility as politeness and civility as public-mindedness. The objective of this article is to show that these conceptions and the different normative claims associated with them can all fit…
Educating citizens to public reason: What can we learn from interfaith dialogue
John Rawls’s political liberalism demands that reasonable citizens comply with the duty of civility, which limits the justification of state action to public reasons. However, many religious citizens in liberal democratic societies reject the exclusion of religious reasons from public debate. What can be done to encourage these citizens to endorse public reason? Rawls proposes the idea of reasoning from conjecture (RC), i.e. directly engaging wit…
Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible
Symbolic religious establishment (SRE), that is, the noncoercive recognition of religion by the state, has become the object of a growing debate in political philosophy. Although SRE is purely symbolic, some have argued that it can be wrong because of the message of political inequality that it sends. The indeterminacy of this expressive argument makes its application problematic, however. The objective of this article is to improve the applicabi…
The Pope’s Public Reason: A Religious yet Public Case for Welcoming Refugees
Since the beginning of Europe’s “refugee crisis,” Pope Francis has repeatedly argued that we should welcome refugees. This, he said, is an obligation for Christians who have “a duty of justice, of civility, and of solidarity.” This religious justification is a problem for liberal political philosophers who are committed to the idea of public reason: state action, they argue, must be justified to all citizens based on public, generally accessible …
Liberalism’s Religion: Cécile Laborde and Her Critics
Liberalism's Religion: Cécile Laborde and Her Critics
Two Misunderstandings About Public Justification and Religious Reasons
Laborde, liberalism, and religion
In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of the debate on religion in political philosophy. We present the main arguments defended by Cécile Laborde in Liberalism’s Religion and explain how these arguments contribute to the debate
Is epistemic accessibility enough? Same-sex marriage, tradition, and the Bible
In Liberalism’s Religion, Cécile Laborde argues that a liberal state has to be a justifiable state: state action can only be legitimate if it is publicly justified, that is, if it is based on accessible reasons. These accessible reasons, she argues, are reasons that can be understood by all citizens. She defends a purely epistemic conception of accessibility. On Laborde’s account, accessible reasons are identified by particular epistemic features…
Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy
In recent years, the notion of religion has received increased salience both in academic and in wider public debate, yet it is still a category that liberal political philosophers are uncomfortable with. This is somewhat paradoxical because key liberal notions (state sovereignty, toleration, individual freedom, the rights of conscience, public reason) were elaborated as a response to seventeenth-century European wars of religion, and the fundamen…
Religion and Public Reason: A Comparison of the Positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur, written by Maureen Junker-Kenny
Culture, neutrality and minority rights
Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition offers a new and powerful argument to support the ‘strong cultural rights thesis’. Unlike other culturalist arguments, his argument is not based on a problematic and essentialist conception of culture but on a particular understanding of liberal neutrality as fair treatment and equal recognition. What justifies the existence of such rights is not culture itself but what culture means for people and the negative con…
Render unto Caesar the Things which are God's: The Requirement of Political Profound Secularization in Liberal Democracy
How to talk about bioethics: God, human dignity and embryonic stem cells in France and in the United States
Dans une perspective de théorie politique libérale, on considère souvent que les justifications de décisions politiques ne devraient pas faire référence à des valeurs non-politiques, notamment religieuses, mais seulement à des valeurs politiques. Les questions profondément morales, notamment concernant la bioéthique, ne respectent cependant pas cette norme. Dans cet article, je défends l’idée que les distinctions entre valeurs politiques et non-p…
Normativité, interprétation et jugement en théorie politique
Ce texte interroge le statut et le rôle de la théorie politique. L’argument défendu est que la théorie politique est différente des autres sous-disciplines de la science politique ainsi que de la science en général, à la fois du fait de son rapport à la normativité et du fait de son ambition qui est de l’ordre du jugement et de l’interprétation et non de l’ordre de la découverte de lois scientifiques de causalité. La théorie politique se distingu…
Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection
Calls for civility feature prominently in public discourse, and the concept has received growing attention by political philosophers recently. But what does it mean to be civil? The existing literature distinguishes between two main understandings of civility: civility as politeness and civility as public-mindedness. The objective of this article is to show that these conceptions and the different normative claims associated with them can all fit…
Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible
Symbolic religious establishment (SRE), that is, the noncoercive recognition of religion by the state, has become the object of a growing debate in political philosophy. Although SRE is purely symbolic, some have argued that it can be wrong because of the message of political inequality that it sends. The indeterminacy of this expressive argument makes its application problematic, however. The objective of this article is to improve the applicabi…
Is epistemic accessibility enough? Same-sex marriage, tradition, and the Bible
In Liberalism’s Religion, Cécile Laborde argues that a liberal state has to be a justifiable state: state action can only be legitimate if it is publicly justified, that is, if it is based on accessible reasons. These accessible reasons, she argues, are reasons that can be understood by all citizens. She defends a purely epistemic conception of accessibility. On Laborde’s account, accessible reasons are identified by particular epistemic features…
Render unto Caesar the Things which are God's: The Requirement of Political Profound Secularization in Liberal Democracy
Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity
When generally applicable rules clash with one’s cultural, religious or moral commitments, should exemptions be granted? The debate on exemptions raises the question both of what it means to treat people equally and of what it means to protect diversity adequately. The objective of this paper is to defend the no-exemption argument and to make it a more attractive position for liberals. I first argue that exemptions violate the principle of equal …
Laborde, liberalism, and religion
In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of the debate on religion in political philosophy. We present the main arguments defended by Cécile Laborde in Liberalism’s Religion and explain how these arguments contribute to the debate
How to talk about bioethics: God, human dignity and embryonic stem cells in France and in the United States
Dans une perspective de théorie politique libérale, on considère souvent que les justifications de décisions politiques ne devraient pas faire référence à des valeurs non-politiques, notamment religieuses, mais seulement à des valeurs politiques. Les questions profondément morales, notamment concernant la bioéthique, ne respectent cependant pas cette norme. Dans cet article, je défends l’idée que les distinctions entre valeurs politiques et non-p…
Normativité, interprétation et jugement en théorie politique
Ce texte interroge le statut et le rôle de la théorie politique. L’argument défendu est que la théorie politique est différente des autres sous-disciplines de la science politique ainsi que de la science en général, à la fois du fait de son rapport à la normativité et du fait de son ambition qui est de l’ordre du jugement et de l’interprétation et non de l’ordre de la découverte de lois scientifiques de causalité. La théorie politique se distingu…
Religion and Public Reason: A Comparison of the Positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur, written by Maureen Junker-Kenny
Culture, neutrality and minority rights
Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition offers a new and powerful argument to support the ‘strong cultural rights thesis’. Unlike other culturalist arguments, his argument is not based on a problematic and essentialist conception of culture but on a particular understanding of liberal neutrality as fair treatment and equal recognition. What justifies the existence of such rights is not culture itself but what culture means for people and the negative con…
Render unto Caesar the Things which are God's: The Requirement of Political Profound Secularization in Liberal Democracy
Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy
In recent years, the notion of religion has received increased salience both in academic and in wider public debate, yet it is still a category that liberal political philosophers are uncomfortable with. This is somewhat paradoxical because key liberal notions (state sovereignty, toleration, individual freedom, the rights of conscience, public reason) were elaborated as a response to seventeenth-century European wars of religion, and the fundamen…
Two Misunderstandings About Public Justification and Religious Reasons
Laborde, liberalism, and religion
In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of the debate on religion in political philosophy. We present the main arguments defended by Cécile Laborde in Liberalism’s Religion and explain how these arguments contribute to the debate
Is epistemic accessibility enough? Same-sex marriage, tradition, and the Bible
In Liberalism’s Religion, Cécile Laborde argues that a liberal state has to be a justifiable state: state action can only be legitimate if it is publicly justified, that is, if it is based on accessible reasons. These accessible reasons, she argues, are reasons that can be understood by all citizens. She defends a purely epistemic conception of accessibility. On Laborde’s account, accessible reasons are identified by particular epistemic features…
Liberalism’s Religion: Cécile Laborde and Her Critics
Liberalism's Religion: Cécile Laborde and Her Critics
The Pope’s Public Reason: A Religious yet Public Case for Welcoming Refugees
Since the beginning of Europe’s “refugee crisis,” Pope Francis has repeatedly argued that we should welcome refugees. This, he said, is an obligation for Christians who have “a duty of justice, of civility, and of solidarity.” This religious justification is a problem for liberal political philosophers who are committed to the idea of public reason: state action, they argue, must be justified to all citizens based on public, generally accessible …
Educating citizens to public reason: What can we learn from interfaith dialogue
John Rawls’s political liberalism demands that reasonable citizens comply with the duty of civility, which limits the justification of state action to public reasons. However, many religious citizens in liberal democratic societies reject the exclusion of religious reasons from public debate. What can be done to encourage these citizens to endorse public reason? Rawls proposes the idea of reasoning from conjecture (RC), i.e. directly engaging wit…
Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible
Symbolic religious establishment (SRE), that is, the noncoercive recognition of religion by the state, has become the object of a growing debate in political philosophy. Although SRE is purely symbolic, some have argued that it can be wrong because of the message of political inequality that it sends. The indeterminacy of this expressive argument makes its application problematic, however. The objective of this article is to improve the applicabi…
Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity
When generally applicable rules clash with one’s cultural, religious or moral commitments, should exemptions be granted? The debate on exemptions raises the question both of what it means to treat people equally and of what it means to protect diversity adequately. The objective of this paper is to defend the no-exemption argument and to make it a more attractive position for liberals. I first argue that exemptions violate the principle of equal …
Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection
Calls for civility feature prominently in public discourse, and the concept has received growing attention by political philosophers recently. But what does it mean to be civil? The existing literature distinguishes between two main understandings of civility: civility as politeness and civility as public-mindedness. The objective of this article is to show that these conceptions and the different normative claims associated with them can all fit…
Public reason and food policy
People differ widely in their eating habits. This often reflects fundamental disagreements among their conceptions of the good as these relate to health, culinary traditions, animals’ interests, and so on. How laws regulating food production, distribution, and consumption can be legitimate despite such pluralism is an important question, and we welcome Josh Milburn’s and Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s attempts to show how public reason libera…
Who Knows Best? Religious Expertise in Making Decisions about Religion
When it comes to making political decisions about religion, decision-makers often rely on the testimonies of two kinds of religious experts: religious leaders and academic experts of religion. While such religious experts have epistemic authority for questions of religious identification and religious orthodoxy, their expertise is the wrong kind in a religiously neutral state. Questions of religious identification unfairly treat religion as being…
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