Finding Reasons for being Reasonable: Interrogating Rawls

This essay discusses Rawls distinction between the reasonable and the rational in the context of the liberal effort to establish the priority of the right over the good. It argues that inarticulacy about the good makes it difficult for Rawls to find arguments in support of a minimal conception of th...

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Main Author: Puri, Bindu (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-141
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Justice
B Moral powers
B Prudence
B Rational
B Reasonable
B Reciprocity
B Comprehensive theories of the good
B Moral relativism
B overlapping consensus
B Moral potential of persons
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