The order of public reason a theory of freedom and morality in a diverse and bounded world
In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised and more realistic account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and political order that treats all as free and equal moral perso...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The fundamental problem
- Part I. Social Order and Social Morality: The failure of instrumentalism; Social morality as the sphere of rules; Emotion and reason in social morality
- Part II. Real Public Reason: The justificatory problem and the deliberative model; The rights of the moderns; Moral equilibrium and moral freedom; The moral and political orders
- Appendix A: The plurality of morality
- Appendix B. Economic freedom in states that best protect civil rights