Equal Respect, Liberty, and Civic Friendship : Why Liberal
Public Justification Needs a Dual Understanding of Reciprocity

J 2021

Equal Respect, Liberty, and Civic Friendship : Why Liberal Public Justification Needs a Dual Understanding of Reciprocity

BLÁHOVÁ, Sylvie a Pavel DUFEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Equal Respect, Liberty, and Civic Friendship : Why Liberal Public Justification Needs a Dual Understanding of Reciprocity

Autoři

BLÁHOVÁ, Sylvie a Pavel DUFEK

Vydání

Politologický časopis, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2021, 1211-3247

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

article in the CEOOL database

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Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00118910

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova česky

veřejný rozum; veřejné ospravedlnění; princip svobody; občanské přátelství; reciprocita; politická komunita

Klíčová slova anglicky

public reason; public justification; the liberty principle; civic friendship; reciprocity; political community

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 3. 2023 15:45, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The paper critically discusses the dualism in the interpretation of the moral basis of public reason. We argue that in order to maintain the complementarity of both liberal and democratic values within the debate on public reason, the arguments from liberty and from civic friendship cannot be considered in isolation. With regard to the argument from liberty, we contend that because the idea of natural liberty is an indispensable starting point of liberal theory, no explanation of the justification of political power can do without it. In particular, we focus on the requirement of reasonableness and show that we should retain the epistemic aspect of the reasonableness of persons. The main reason for this is to be found in the criterion of reciprocity which provides the deepest justification of the respect for people’s liberty – that is, the liberal aspect of liberal democracy. At the same time, however, we argue that reciprocity also provides the grounds for responding to the criticism that the essentially liberal approach fails to adequately take into consideration the role of political community. Because reciprocity may also be interpreted as being based on civic friendship, it provides the resources to respond to such criticism. It thus supplies the normative background also for the second, democratic pillar of public reason. We then critically examine the newly emerging approach built predominantly on the argument from civic friendship, arguing that by prioritising the civic friendship interpretation and, at times, tending to completely abandon the liberty-based one, it overlooks the indispensability of liberty-based considerations for the criterion of reciprocity. We conclude that in order to adequately capture the common liberal-democratic basis of public reason, both interpretations of reciprocity must be linked within a comprehensive account.

Návaznosti

GA19-11091S, projekt VaV

Název: Jak dál s veřejným rozumem? Kritiky a obhajoby veřejného ospravedlnění podle liberalismu

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Jak dál s veřejným rozumem? Kritiky a obhajoby veřejného ospravedlnění podle liberalismu

Přiložené soubory

equal-respect-liberty-and-civic-friendship.pdf

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Citovat

BLÁHOVÁ, Sylvie a Pavel DUFEK. Equal Respect, Liberty, and Civic Friendship : Why Liberal Public Justification Needs a Dual Understanding of Reciprocity. Politologický časopis. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, roč. 28, č. 1, s. 3-19. ISSN 1211-3247. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5817/PC2021-1-3.

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BLÁHOVÁ, Sylvie a Pavel DUFEK. Equal Respect, Liberty, and Civic Friendship : Why Liberal Public Justification Needs a Dual Understanding of Reciprocity. \textit{Politologický časopis}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, roč.~28, č.~1, s.~3-19. ISSN~1211-3247. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5817/PC2021-1-3.

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