Religion and Public Reason: A Comparison of the Positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricœur

Maureen Junker-Kenny

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Religion and Public Reason

A Comparison of the Positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricœur

Maureen Junker-Kenny

Volume 16 in the series Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110347326

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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.
The premises of their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines the specific function of public reason; (2) their anthropologies and theories of action; (3) the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework; (4) the different views of religion that follow from these factors, including their understanding of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims, and the role of religion as a practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public reason, and the task of translation from faith traditions, as well as the role they might have in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon.

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Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Public reason as a neutral mediator in pluralist democracies in John Rawls’s political philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Introduction to Parts Two and Three Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
2. Practical reason in the public sphere: Jürgen Habermas’s rehabilitation of religion as a resource within the project of modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
3. Religions as co-foundational of the public space in Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
4. Conclusion of the comparison of the three positions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 322
Keywords: Religion; public sphere; postsecular society; liberalism

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Published: April 2, 2014
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Published: March 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110346213

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Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110487961