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In Search of a Stable Consensus: Rawls's Model of Public Reason and Its Critics

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Rawls’s political turn is the result of his struggle with the problem of stability in his theory of justice. Rawls’s late solution uses the concept of public reason. It requires that the members of the well-ordered society should abide by a political conception of justice for shared public reasons, thus fostering an overlapping consensus. This solution has been criticized by post-Rawlsian scholars endorsing a Diversity-Convergence account of the stability problem. I complement Rawls’s model of public reason by arguing that the stability problem can be solved if members of the well-ordered society are community-based reasoners. This leads to a Wittgensteinian reinterpretation of the concept of public reason. This solution is only partial, however. At the bottom, stability without a minimal form of consensus is unlikely.

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Cyril Hédoin. In Search of a Stable Consensus: Rawls's Model of Public Reason and Its Critics. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023, 24 (2), pp.236-257. ⟨10.26556/jesp.v24i2.2494⟩. ⟨hal-03951730⟩
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