Free public reason : making it up as we go / Fred D'Agostino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Agostino, Fred, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Consensus (Social sciences).

Reason--Social aspects.

Reason.

Justification (Theory of knowledge).

General will.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itself. D'Agostino shows that the concept is composed of various values, interests and notions regarding the common good.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; 1. Précis; 2. Retrospective; 3. Prospective; 2. Some Apparatus; 3. The Idea of Public Justification; 4. Some Conceptions of Public Justification; 5. The Ideal of Public Justification; 6. Prima Facie Incoherence; 7. Overarching Principles and Perspectives?; 8. Responses to and Diagnosis of Prima Facie Incoherence; 9. 'Solving' the Problem; 10. Assessing the Solution; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Bibliography: p185-191. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773042-6

1-280-52810-9

0-19-535700-0

1-4294-0665-8

OCLC:

476007399