Habermas on Rawls and the normative foundations of democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2398301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krzysztof Kędziora (0000-0003-4224-9544, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 545-561 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431020985416 |
| OpenAlex | W3119062670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
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
Classical liberalism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Primary goods · Public reason · Reflective equilibrium · Sociology · Veil of ignorance · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
The Idea Of An Overlapping Consensus
A Theory of Justice
Disagreements About Justice
Liberals and Communitarians
Reconciliation Through the Public Use of Reason
John Rawls and the Search for Stability A Theory of Justice . John Rawls Political Liberalism . John Rawls
Social Justice And Social Institutions
Habermas
Why Political Liberalism
The Habermas-Rawls Debate
What is reasonableness
Politics and morality in Habermas’ discourse ethics
How to Derive "Ought" From "Is
Political Liberalism
Between Facts and Norms
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |