The role of public reason in Rawls’s theory of justice

Authors

  • Denis Coitinho Silveira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/5005

Abstract

This article discusses the role of public reason in John Rawls’s theory of justice in Political liberalism, The idea of public reason revisited and Justice as fairness: A restatement, with a view to identifying a pragmatic justification in the theory of justice as fairness.

Key words: public reason; pragmatic justification; theory of justice as fairness.

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Published

2021-06-07

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SILVEIRA, D. C. The role of public reason in Rawls’s theory of justice. Filosofia Unisinos / Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, São Leopoldo, v. 10, n. 1, p. 65–78, 2021. DOI: 10.4013/5005. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/5005. Acesso em: 7 may. 2025.

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2009): January/April

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