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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Notizie di Politeia

ISSN

1128-2401

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Svazek periodika

39

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

150

Stát vydavatele periodika

IT - Italská republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

5-18

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85169149951