Self-respect and public reason
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Whitfield (0000-0003-1220-5911, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 446-465 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2016.1238439 |
| OpenAlex | W4234492686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
In A Theory of Justice John Rawls argues that self-respect is ‘perhaps the most important’ primary good, and that its status as such gives crucial support to controversial ideas like the lexical priority of liberty. Given the importance of these ideas for Rawls, it should be no surprise that they have attracted much critical attention. In response to these critics I give a defense of self-respect that grounds its importance in Rawls’s moral conception of the person. I show that this understanding of self-respect goes well beyond giving support to the lexical priority of liberty, also supporting Rawls’s still more controversial view of public reason. On my account, taking self-respect seriously requires the coercive enforcement of public reason. This is a novel argument for public reason, in that it grounds the idea in justice as fairness and mandates its coercive enforcement
Argument (complex analysis · Economic Justice · Enforcement · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Primary goods · Public reason · Sociology · Surprise · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
Justice as Fairness
The Dignity of Legislation
The nature and function of self-esteem
Liberty and Self-Respect
Political Liberalism
A Theory of Justice
Deliberative Democracy
The Limits of Public Reason
Liberalism without Perfection
Rawls's Idea of Public Reason
The Constitution of Equality
Justice As Impartiality
Reconciliation Through the Public use of Reason
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Justificatory Liberalism
Two Kinds of Respect
Radical Egalitarian Justice
Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics
Public reason and democracy
Perhaps the most important primary good
The Completeness of Public Reason
Reconsidering the Role of Self-Respect in Rawls’sA Theory of Justice
Self-Respect and Rawlsian Justice
Political Liberalism
Rawls's Defense of the Priority of Liberty
The Self-Relevant Implications of Distribution Rules
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |