Publication details
„Political Liberalism: A Kantian View", Ethics 128 (1), S. 123-144.
ArticleAuthor(s): Forst, Rainer
Year of publication: 2017
Abstract: This article suggests a Kantian reading of Rawls’s Political Liberalism. As much as Rawls distanced himself from a presentation of his theory in terms of a comprehensive Kantian moral doctrine, we ought to read it as a noncomprehensive Kantian moral-political theory. According to the latter approach, the liberal conception of justice is compatible with a plurality of comprehensive doctrines as long as they share the independently defined and grounded essentials of that conception of justice—that is, as long as they are “reasonable,” to use the term that does most of the Kantian work.
Keywords: Kant, Rawls, Liberalism, justice
Research area: Research Area 1: The Normativity of Normative Orders: Origins, Vanishing Points, PerformativitiyResearch project: Power, Rule and Violence in Orders of Justification
Subject(s): philosophyFurther information: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/692945
10.1017/S1369415417000267
