Jürgen Habermas on public reason and religion: do religious citizens suffer an asymmetrical cognitive burden, and should they be compensated?

Author(s):  
Cathrine Holst ◽  
Anders Molander
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-240
Author(s):  
Miguel Vatter

This chapter explores Jürgen Habermas’s conception of a post-metaphysical idea of public reason as basis of democratic legitimacy in postsecular societies. It discusses Habermas’s interpretation of Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies of religion in terms of their efforts to ‘translate’ theological substance into ethico-political form, thus giving a secular meaning to the idea of God’s Kingdom. The chapter shows the roots of Habermas’s adoption of ‘methodological atheism’ in the writings of Karl Jaspers and Ernst Bloch on the relation between philosophy and faith in revelation. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the similarities between Habermas’s and Jacques Derrida’s defences of an essential messianic component in contemporary democratic theory.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-498
Author(s):  
Maureen Junker-Kenny

Concepts of ‘public reason’ vary according to the underlying understandings of theoretical and practical reason; they make a difference to what can be argued for in the public sphere as justified expectations to oneself and fellow-citizens. What is the significance for the scope of ethics when two neo-Kantian theorists of public reason, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, propose a reduced reading of the ‘antinomy’ highlighted in Kant’s analysis of practical reason? The desire for meaning, unrelinquishable for humans, is frustrated when moral initiatives are met with hostility. Kant resolves the antinomy between morality and happiness by invoking the concept of a creator God whose concern that our anticipatory moral actions should not fail encourages the hope on which human agency relies. Defining the scope of ethics by the unconditional character of reason ( Vernunft) rules out the minimisation of ethics to what can safely be expected to be delivered.


2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 583
Author(s):  
Nythamar Fernandes De Oliveira

Trata-se de revisitar o debate Rawls-Habermas,em particular, o problema da autonomia política à luz da apropriação que estes autores nos oferecem do procedimentalismo kantiano.Tanto John Rawls quanto Jürgen Habermas, em suas respectivas concepções de "cultura política" e "esfera pública," partem de uma equivocada atribuição de um fundacionalismo moral em Kant ("fato da razão") de forma a preservar o princípio normativo de universalizabilidade capaz de assegurar a estabilidade de uma "sociedade bem ordenada" (Rawls) e balizar o procedimentalismo democrático enquanto alternativa para os modelos liberais e republicanos (Habermas).


polemica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-22
Author(s):  
Elaine Lucio Pereira

Resumo: O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer uma analogia entre as teorias democráticas deliberativas de John Rawls e Jürgen Habermas, por meio de uma análise comparativa. As concepções formuladas pelos dois expoentes teóricos sobre o tema buscam equacionar o pluralismo político com diferentes justificativas. O tema foi eleito em razão da importância de discussão das fontes de legitimação dos Estados democráticos. Enquanto Rawls propõe uma democracia substantiva, Habermas defende a procedimental. O objetivo é traçar, em linhas gerais, as teorias de ambos, sem exposição de juízo de valor entre elas, e destacar seus pontos de convergência e os antagônicos. O método utilizado foi a pesquisa bibliográfica dedutiva, tendo como base algumas das principais obras dos autores, além de obras e artigos de seus comentadores O artigo aborda, em primeiro lugar, a Teoria da Justiça como Equidade, de Rawls, com a retomada da teoria contratualista com peculiaridades; a posição original e o véu da ignorância; o consenso sobreposto e a razão pública e os princípios da justiça. Em um segundo momento, é exposta a democracia procedimental de Habermas, o agir comunicativo e a esfera pública, a equiprimordialidade entre autonomia pública e privada e a Teoria Discursiva do Direito. Por fim, salientam-se os principais pontos de convergência, bem como as divergências, enfatizando-se a importância da democracia deliberativa nos países democráticos.Palavras-chaves: Democracia Deliberativa. Pluralismo Político. Justiça como Equidade. Esfera Pública. Abstract: This works aim to establish an analogy between Deliberative Democratic Theory from John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas through a comparative analysis. The conceptions developed by these two exponents theoreticians seek to give some thoughts to political pluralism using different justifications. This theme was chosen in order to feed into the discussion on the importance of the legitimacy of the Democratic State. John Rawl’s theory sets out substantive democracy, whereas Habermas proposes the procedural one. This paper attempts to outline both theories, without making value judgments, however it intends to highlight points of convergence and divergence. The method used was the deductive bibliographic research relaying on major works from these two authors and on writings an articles from their commentators. In an attempt to shed some light on the debate, primarily this paper discusses Rawl’s Theory os Justice as Equity from the point of view of Contractual Theory and its specials characteristics, the original position and the veil of ignorance, public reason and principles of justice. In a second moment, it presents Habermas Procedural Theory, communicative action, public sphere, equiprimordiality between public and private autonomy and Law Discursive Theory. Lastly, this works draws attention to the main points of agreement as well as disagreements emphasizing the importance of the deliberative democracy in democratic countries.Keywords: Deliberative Democracy. Political Pluralism. Justice as Equity. Public Sphere.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Klaus Viertbauer

Habermas’s postmetaphysical reading of Kierkegaard is paradigmatic for his understanding of religion. It shows, why Habermas reduces religion to fideism. Therefore the paper reconstructs Habermas’s reception of Kierkegaard and compares it with the accounts of Dieter Henrich and Michael Theunissen. Furthermore it demonstrates how Habermas makes use of Kierkegaard’s dialectics of existence to formulate his postmetaphysical thesis of a cooperative venture.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlene Santos Mafra Medeiros ◽  
Rita Maria Radl-Phillipp ◽  
José Gilliard Santos da Silva

O artigo em questão apresenta a construção coletiva de uma proposta pedagógica para a Escola Estadual Joaquim José de Medeiros, localizada na cidade de Cruzeta, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, e possui como base epistemológica a teoria social de George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas e a teoria crítica da educação da Escola de Frankfurt, nas perspectivas de Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2003), Jürgen Habermas (2012); e, atualmente, de pesquisadores contemporâneos como Freire (2009), Radl-Philipp (1996, 1998, 2014), Bannell (2006), Pucci (2006), Santos (2007), Medeiros (2010-1016), Casagrande (2014) dentre outros autores que estudam Mead e as teorias críticas numa perspectiva emancipatória.


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