POLS 3500 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 4: Deliberative Democracy, Public Reason
18 Oct 2018
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John rawls - the idea of public reason. Any form of political society has a way of formulating its plans and making decisions. The way a political society does this is its reason, and its ability to do this is also the reason. It is an intellectual and moral power, rooted in the capacities of its members. Not all reasons are public, there are also non public reasons. Public reason is a characteristic of democratic people. In aristocratic and autocratic regimes, this is done by the rulers. Deliberative democracy: an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. It treats democracy itself as political ideal and not just an unoriginal ideal that can be explained in terms of the values of fairness or equality of respect. Section 1 focuses on rawls" discussion of democracy, raises doubts about whether their importance is naturally explained in terms of the notion of a fair system of social cooperation.
