The Scandal of Reason

The Scandal of Reason PDF Author: Albena Azmanova
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153805
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Book Description
Theories of justice struggle to balance vision and practicality. As with Habermas, the more demanding the ideal of justice, the less connected the theory is to political reality; as with Rawls, the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its normative criteria, rendering the theory unreliable. Brokering a resolution to the?judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a?critical consensus" model of judgment, which serves the normative ideals of a just society without resorting to ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy?critical.