The Habermas-Rawls Debate

James Gordon Finlayson

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780231549011
• Topic: Philosophie
• Subtopic: Philosophie politique

In the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications.

INDEX

Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.

Note: Habermas and Rawls are referred to as H and R throughout.

accountability, principle of, 29

abductive inference, 32

abortion, 228

Adorno, Theodor W. and Horkheimer, Max: as influences on H, 4, 250n10. See also critical theory

agent-relative vs. agent-neutral reasons, 37

Alexy, Robert, 30

Apel, Karl-Otto, 4, 95

Aristotle, 20

asymmetry objection. See public reason: and unfairness/asymmetry objection

Audi, Robert, 214, 218–219, 229

Austin, J. L., 4

Austin, John, 85

autonomy, 65, 190, 197–198; Kantian idea of, 23; moral, 99; of parties in original position, 163, 190; political, 89, 96, 99, 100–108, 167, 262n23; priority of private over public in R, 160, 169–172, 173, 191–196, 209, 265n14; R’s argument for, 25. See also co-originality: of public and private autonomy

avoidance, R’s method of, 158–159, 162, 173, 186–187, 197; H’s objection to, 203–205

Baier, Kurt, 72

Baldwin, Thomas, 203–204

basic structure of society, 21, 51, 75–76, 135, 167, 196, 254n26

Baxter, Hugh, 86, 97, 229

Baynes, Kenneth, 92, 94, 97, 128, 165, 166, 182

Beitz, Charles, 165

Benhabib, Seyla, 68–74, 109. See also feminists and feminism

Berlin, Isaiah, 3, 193

Between Facts and Norms, 79, 93, 98–99, 155; priority of right over good in, 91; as procedural, 166; and rational reconstruction, 245; solidarity in, 106; structure of, 84–87

Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang, 234–235

Brandom, Robert, 6

burdens of judgment, 114, 187, 196

Cassirer, Ernst, 1

Chambers, Simone, 74–75

Chomsky, Noam, 43

circumstances of justice, the, 19

civility, duty of, 134–135, 137, 179, 214–222, 235, 239, 268n23; as applying to political theorists, 180, 233, 244. See also public reason

civil society, H’s co...