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The Public Perspective - Public Justification and the Ethics of Belief (Paperback)
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The Public Perspective - Public Justification and the Ethics of Belief (Paperback)
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Public debates in our societies are marked by appeals to tradition,
religion and even manipulative uses of 'post-truth'. This book
argues that the antidote to such tendencies can only be public
reasoning. We can find the resources to build what I call the
public perspective if we make two commitments: to respect people as
free autonomous agents and to endorse a shared ethics of beliefs.
An ethics of belief is a set of epistemic and moral rules that
inform the beliefs that we bring to the public forum and make
possible discussion and confrontation on a terrain that is
adequately public. The epistemological aspects cannot be severed
from the political commitments that motivate public justification
in the first place. An ethics of belief shields us against two
temptations: on the one hand, to abandon reason and claim that all
sorts of beliefs and opinion should weigh into public reasoning;
or, on the other, to appeal to objective reasons only,
independently of whether people recognise them as such or not.
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