On the reasonability of reasoning with the religiously unreasonable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6421022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilie Coetsee (0000-0002-9306-0816, Hope College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1201-1235 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-10 |
| 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 | 10.1080/13698230.2022.2137752 |
| OpenAlex | W4380150475 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Political liberals argue that religious citizens should exercise religious restraint: they ought, at least as a rule, not to rely directly on religious reasons in public political debates, and should instead draw only from the contents of a ‘reasonable’, secular political conception of justice. Political liberals hold that direct religious reasoners’ who fail to follow this rule fail to be ‘reasonable’ (in a technical sense) and contend that liberal polities may thus dismiss their religiously-motivated objections to otherwise justified democratic laws. However, I argue that political liberals’ own principles of ‘reasonability’ forbid such a dismissal. Those principles themselves, I argue, require liberal polities to offer direct religious reasoners who are reasonable in the basic, colloquial sense of being fair-minded and reciprocitous, deep reasons—that speak to their comprehensive religious doctrines—for why they should accept and reason from a ‘reasonable’, political conception of justice. I call the position which requires such deep justification of a ‘reasonable’, political conception of justice Deep Inclusivism, and draw on the work of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic political thinker, to help illustrate what a fair-minded, reciprocitous religious reasoner might look like.KEYWORDS: Political liberalismreligionilliberalismpublic reasonpublic justificationexemptionspillarization Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s
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