The epistemic status of the principles of justice in Habermas and Rawls

• Authors: Gunnar Skirbekk

Abstracts

EN

The debate between Habermas and Rawls that took place in 1990s concerned how philosophy can justify the principles of justice under the conditions of pluralism of different and irreconcilable moral, philosophical, and religious doctrines. The context of the debate was mainly Rawls’ Political Liberalism and Habermas’ Between Facts and Norms as well. This paper argues that a wider geo-cultural perspective is pertinent in order to better comprehend the different justification strategies in Habermas and Rawls, concerning the principle of justice. This goes for their different geo-cultural experiences and presuppositions – in short, Rawls living in a self-confident North America in the post-war period versus Habermas’ German experience of civilization breakdown. However, it might also be relevant for the assessment of these two strategies in our time, faced with new kinds of geo-political differences and conflicts.

Keywords

EN

The Rawls-Habermas debate; principles of justice; validity claims; truth; justification

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 38
• Pages: 131-138

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Gunnar Skirbekk

• University of Bergen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6107.38.07

Biblioteka Nauki

2034036