Moderate Inclusivism and the Conversational Translation Proviso: Revising Habermas' Ethics of Citizenship
Habermas' ethics of citizenship' raises a number of relevant concerns about the dangers of a secularistic exclusion of religious contributions to public deliberation, on the one hand, and the dangers of religious conflict and sectarianism in politics, on the other. Agreeing largely with t...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Habermas, Jürgen 1929-
/ Citizen
/ Political participation
/ Social ethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CH Christianity and Society VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion in the Public Sphere
B Deliberative Democracy B Habermas B The Ethics of Citizenship |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Habermas' ethics of citizenship' raises a number of relevant concerns about the dangers of a secularistic exclusion of religious contributions to public deliberation, on the one hand, and the dangers of religious conflict and sectarianism in politics, on the other. Agreeing largely with these concerns, the paper identities four problems with Habermas' approach, and attempts to overcome them: (a) the full exclusion of religious reasons from parliamentary debate; (b) the full inclusion of religious reasons in the informal public sphere; (c) the philosophical distinction between secular and religious reasons; and (d) the sociological distinction between Western' and non-Western' religions. The result is a revised version of the ethics of citizenship, which I call moderate inclusivism. Most notably, moderate inclusivism implies a replacement of Habermas' institutional translation proviso' with a more flexible conversational translation proviso'. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v11i4.2829 |