Religion and public reason : a comparison of the positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur /

"This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethical reformulation of Kant's universalism and its realization in the public sphe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Junker-Kenny, Maureen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs ; Bd. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Public reason as a neutral mediator in pluralist democracies in John Rawl's political philosophy
  • Practical reason in the public sphere: Jèurgen Habermas's rehabilitation of religion as a resource within the project of modernity
  • Religions as co-foundational of the public space in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical philosophy
  • Conclusion of the comparison of the three positions.