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2. Feb. 2016 · Rawls, John (1997) "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," University of Chicago Law Review: Vol. 64: Iss. 3, Article 1. Available at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol64/iss3/1. By John Rawls, Published on 06/01/97.
- John Rawls
- 1997
Normative political theorists have been growing more and more aware of the many difficult questions raised by the discretionary power inevitably left to public administrators. This article aims to …
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- John Rawls
- 1997
1. By the “Law of Peoples”¹ I mean a particular political conception of right and justice that applies to the principles and norms of international law and practice. I shall use the term “Society of Peoples” to mean all those peoples who follow the ideals and principles of the Law of Peoples in their mutual relations.
- JOHN RAWLS
The idea of public reason specifies at the deepest level the basic moral and political values that are to determine a constitutional democratic government’s relation to its citizens and their relation to one another. In short, it concerns how the political relation is to be understood.
TL;DR: In the Middle East, religious fundamentalism has become the seedbed for a decentralized form of terrorism that operates globally and is directed against perceived insults and injuries caused by a superior Western civilization.
Central to the idea of public reason is that it neither criti-cizes nor attacks any comprehensive doctrine, religious or nonre-ligious, except insofar as that doctrine is incompatible with the essentials of public reason and a democratic polity. The basic re-quirement is that a reasonable doctrine accepts a constitutional
