Why Public Reason Could Not Be Too Modest: The Case of Public Reason Confucianism

Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2):163-176 (2019)
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In Public Reason Confucianism, Sungmoon Kim presents an important Confucian political theory that seeks to combine a specific conception of Confucianism and the ideal of public reason. My article examines this theory and identifies some of the theoretical complications with Rawlsian public reason.

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Political Liberalism.J. Rawls - 1995 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (3):596-598.
Justice for hedgehogs.Ronald Dworkin - 2011 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Liberalism Without Perfection.Jonathan Quong - 2010 - Oxford University Press.

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