Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification,
stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the
concept itself. Although public justification is employed in the
work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel,
and others, it has received little attention on its own as a
philosophical concept. D'Agostino shows that the ideal behind this
concept is constituted by many, sometimes competing, demands and
that no formal way of weighing these demands can be identified. The
notion of public justification itself is thus shown to be
contestable. In demonstrating this, D'Agostino questions many
current political theories that rely on this concept. Having broken
down the foundations of public justification, D'Agostino then draws
on the ideas of Dworkin and Kuhn as well as insights from feminism
and post-modernism to offer an alternative model of how a workable
consensus on its meaning might be reached through the interactions
of a community of interpreters or delegates at a constitutional
convention.
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