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Evaluation of the Concept of ‘Public Reason’ in Rawls’s View
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Azadegan, Ebrahim (Supervisor)
Abstract
According to the ideal of public reason, laws and moral codes which regulate lives of the people, have to be justified to each and every person whose life is regulated by that law. If all human beings are equal and free, i.e., they’re not naturally subordinated to each other in their moral or political status, and they’re equal in being naturally free of any subordination, then as a consequence of their individual free reasoning, and as a result of limitations in their understanding and complexity of the world, it is natural that there is deep and lasting disagreement among them about values, morality, religion, and conception of the good life. This disagreement therefore isn’t based on...