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The Objectivity of Beliefs, Reasonable Disagreement and Political Deliberation
Author(s) -
Sousa Felipe Oliveira De
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/raju.12013
Subject(s) - deliberation , argument (complex analysis) , politics , objectivity (philosophy) , epistemology , sociology , law and economics , political science , positive economics , law , philosophy , economics , biochemistry , chemistry
This paper is part of a broader argument that seeks to offer a justification for political authority. It aims to investigate the role of truth in political argument and to place the problem of reasonable disagreement. The argument focuses on the possibility of political deliberation, that figures as a stage of political decision‐making. It has to do with a confrontation between incompatible substantive beliefs which, however, all seem to be reasonable. How can citizens holding incompatible beliefs engage in an enterprise of justifying them to one another? That is the question.