Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go

by Fred D'Agostino

Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itself. Although public justification is employed in the work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, and others, it has received little attention on its own as a philosophical concept. In this book Fred D'Agostino shows that the concept is composed of various values, interests, and notions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195097610
• ISBN13: 9780195097610
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"