RT Article
T1 On the Limits of Rights and Representation
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 43
IS 4
SP 697
OP 722
A1 Johnson, Terrence L.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580182925
AB 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 Jeffrey Stout 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.
K1 John Rawls
K1 Stanley Hauerwas
K1 W. E. B. Du Bois
K1 affected ignorance
K1 cultural inheritance
K1 epistemic diversity
K1 marriage equality
K1 moral problem of blackness
K1 public reason
DO 10.1111/jore.12118