Civic Friendship in Public Reason Liberalism: The Path to a More Respectful Political Community

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Civic Friendship in Public Reason Liberalism: The Path to a More Respectful Political Community

Original language description

This paper discusses the discrepancy in the concept of respect within the liberal political community. The dominant approach to public reason liberalism considers respect to be its moral basis: respect frames both the character of the justification of political power and its standards. Yet, despite guaranteeing respect at the essentially political level, still many people remain disrespected. This situation mainly concerns the so-called societal level as another formative level of the liberal political community. Is it sufficient to ensure respect only given essentially political questions? Since respect is by its very nature a universal moral principle, it would be incoherent to guarantee it only with respect to a particular issue. If public reason liberalism is to be in conformity with its moral basis, it must ensure respect within the liberal political community as a whole. It is the aim of this paper to find a way to cover both spheres of the liberal political community. Consequently, the paper turns to the criterion of reciprocity interpreted in terms of civic friendship. The advantage of such an interpretation of the criterion of reciprocity is not only that it is consistent with the idea of public reason, but also that it retrospectively affects the very character of respect. This is because civic friendship inherently shifts the understanding of respect from the third-person imperative to the second-person act of recognition required at the societal level. In this way, civic friendship enables respect both at the essentially political and societal levels of the liberal political community to be achieved.

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Notizie di Politeia

ISSN

1128-2401

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

150

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

5-18

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85169149951