caa a22 4500 606237593 CHVBK 20210128101253.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9519-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9519-7 Boettcher James Department of Philosophy - BL 250, Saint Joseph's University, 5600 City Avenue, 19131, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Against the Asymmetric Convergence Model of Public Justification [Elektronische Daten] [James Boettcher] Compared to standard liberal approaches to public reason and justification, the asymmetric convergence model of public justification allows for the public justification of laws and policies based on a convergence of quite different and even publicly inaccessible reasons. The model is asymmetrical in the sense of identifying a broader range of reasons that may function as decisive defeaters of proposed laws and policies. This paper raises several critical questions about the asymmetric convergence model and its central but ambiguous presumption against coercion. By drawing on the theory of structural coercion, a main conclusion of the paper is that the asymmetric convergence model ultimately encounters the very incompleteness problems that its proponents often associate with more familiar consensus models of public justification. The paper also develops an alternative, Rawlsian-inspired account of public justification that includes elements of both convergence and consensus but not asymmetry. The Rawlsian model enables us to understand how democratic decisions may possess a degree of procedural, but still morally significant, liberal legitimacy under conditions of pluralism even when citizens fail to agree fully about either the premises of or conclusions to their political arguments. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Public justification nationallicence Public reason nationallicence Liberalism nationallicence Coercion nationallicence Gerald Gaus nationallicence John Rawls nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 191-208 1386-2820 18:1<191 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9519-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9519-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Boettcher James Department of Philosophy - BL 250, Saint Joseph's University, 5600 City Avenue, 19131, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 191-208 1386-2820 18:1<191 2015 18 10677