On the Limits of Rights and Representation

The Moral Challenge of Blackness and the Problem of Public Reason

Bibliographic Data

ID14760503
AuthorsTerrence L Johnson (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume43
Issue4
Pages697-722
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12118
OpenAlexW2147094610
LanguageEN
References cited13

This essay explores the degree to which public reason can sustain political liberalism's commitment to justice and pluralism without attending to the role of what J effrey S tout calls “cultural inheritance” in shaping and justifying political commitments. At issue is whether public reason is the best resource for guiding conversations on political matters that are enmeshed in religious commitments and moral beliefs. Unless public reason can account for cultural inheritance, and foster a deliberative context in which political actors might grapple with the relationship between overlapping political claims and comprehensive doctrines, public reason will remain narrow and inadequate in a contemporary world where epistemic diversity is increasingly at odds with political liberalism's normative model of social cooperation and public deliberation

Classical liberalism · Deliberation · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Normative · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public reason · Sociology · Value pluralism · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools

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