A Companion to Rawls

Mandle, Jon; Reidy, David A.

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“…A central purpose of the idea of a realistic utopia is to explore the limits of what is politically possible with respect to political justice (Rawls 2001, 4–5). (For helpful discussions of Rawlsian ideal theory, see: Simmons 2010; Stemplowska and Swift 2014; Valentini 2012. For two recent analyses of the relations between the ideas of public reason and ideal theory, see: Neufeld 2017 and Weithman 2015.…”

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Shared intentions, public reason, and political autonomy

Neufeld

2019

Can. J. of Philosophy

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John Rawls claims that public reasoning is the reasoning of ‘equal citizens who as a corporate body impose rules on one another backed by sanctions of state power’. Drawing upon an amended version of Michael Bratman’s theory of shared intentions, I flesh out this claim by developing the ‘civic people’ account of public reason. Citizens realize ‘full’ political autonomy as members of a civic people. Full political autonomy, though, cannot be realised by citizens in societies governed by a ‘constrained proceduralist’ account of democratic self-government, or the ‘convergence’ account of public justification formulated recently by Gerald Gaus and Kevin Vallier.

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