Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go. (book reviews)

Mark E. Warren, Georgetown University

For political liberals it is always better to resolve conflicts through the medium of public reason than through coercion, economic blackmail, or tradition. Instead of stipulating what kinds of political outcomes are justifiable, liberals prefer procedures that enable people to arrive at publicly justifiable resolutions. Fred D'Agostino's book examines the concept of public justification itself, an important and timely task, since virtually everyone today holds that public justification is a good thing, but few agree on precisely what it requires. ...

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