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RELIGION AND PUBLIC REASON - MAUREEN JUNKER-KEN...

This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to
religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls  Jürgen
Habermas's discourse ethical reformulation of Kant's universalism and its realization in the
public sphere  and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular
traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens.The premises of
their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines
the specific function of public reason  (2) their anthropologies and theories of action  (3)
the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework  (4)
the different views of religion that follow from these factors  including their understanding
of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims  and the role of religion as a
practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and
German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public
reason  and the task of translation from faith traditions  as well as the role they might have
in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon.

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