Religion and public reason
Subtitle: a comparison of the positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur
By: Maureen Junker-Kenny
Series: Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs = -- Practical theology in the discourse of the humanities -- Band 16
Publisher: De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9783110346213
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Religion and politics
Description: "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 sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens."--Publishers website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-311) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Public reason as a neutral mediator in pluralist democracies in John Rawl's political philosophy; title: Practical reason in the public sphere: Jèurgen Habermas's rehabilitation of religion as a resource within the project of modernity; title: Religions as co-foundational of the public space in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical philosophy; title: Conclusion of the comparison of the three positions.