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In this paper I analyze Habermass conception of the role of religion in the public sphere as
articulated in his recent book Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion. Habermas agrees with the liberal
conception defended by authors such as Rawls and Audi in claiming that legislative decisions can
only be legitimate if they are supported by non-religious reasons that all citizens can reasonably
accept. However, he disagrees with the liberal conception regarding the proper limits of the public
use of reason. According to Habermas, the obligation to offer non-religious reasons in support of
legislative decisions applies only to officials, whereas citizens in the informal public sphere
have the right to offer exclusively religious reasons whenever they cannot find secular
translations for them. As a consequence, secular citizens have the obligation to take religious
views seriously and thus should not adopt a secularist attitude that denies from the outset any
possible cognitive substance to religious views. I analyze the problematic consequences of this
conception for a deliberative understanding of the public sphere and offer an alternative view of
the proper deliberative obligations that result from the inclusion of religious views in the
informal public sphere for both religious and secular citizens. |
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| Lafont, Cristina. "Religion in the Public Sphere: What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizens?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211298_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Lafont, C. , 2007-08-30 "Religion in the Public Sphere: What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizens?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211298_index.html |
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Abstract: In this paper I analyze Habermass conception of the role of religion in the public sphere as
articulated in his recent book Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion. Habermas agrees with the liberal
conception defended by authors such as Rawls and Audi in claiming that legislative decisions can
only be legitimate if they are supported by non-religious reasons that all citizens can reasonably
accept. However, he disagrees with the liberal conception regarding the proper limits of the public
use of reason. According to Habermas, the obligation to offer non-religious reasons in support of
legislative decisions applies only to officials, whereas citizens in the informal public sphere
have the right to offer exclusively religious reasons whenever they cannot find secular
translations for them. As a consequence, secular citizens have the obligation to take religious
views seriously and thus should not adopt a secularist attitude that denies from the outset any
possible cognitive substance to religious views. I analyze the problematic consequences of this
conception for a deliberative understanding of the public sphere and offer an alternative view of
the proper deliberative obligations that result from the inclusion of religious views in the
informal public sphere for both religious and secular citizens. |
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| Religion in the Public Sphere Remarks on Habermas’s Conception of Deliberation in Post-secular Societies Cristina Lafont Northwestern University During the past few decades the role of religion in the public sphere has received increasing attention both in academic circles and in the public sphere itself. The academic debate has centered on recent accounts of the ethics of democratic citizenship offered by authors in the liberal tradition such as J. Rawls or R. Audi. According to the liberal view citizens |
| J. (1993) Political Liberalism Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Rawls J. (1996) “Introduction to the paperback edition” in Political Liberalism Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press pp. xxxvii-lxii. Rawls J. (1997) “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” in Rawls (1999) pp. 573-615. Rawls J. (1999) Collected Papers Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Sandel M. (2005) Public Philosophy Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Weithman P. (2002) Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wolterstorff N. (1997) “The Role |
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