<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Discursive theories of justice have been questioned for putting forward high-level principles that should nevertheless play a role in practical discourses in which the justice of a claim is at stake. Here, I will critically examine and systematize the main tenets in Rawls’s and Habermas’s discursive theories, and will suggest that the principles of justice (Rawls) and universalization (Habermas) can and play the role of mandates of optimalization in real deliberations on justice.</p></abstract>

Discursive theories of justice have been questioned for putting forward high-level principles that should nevertheless play a role in practical discourses in which the justice of a claim is at stake. Here, I will critically examine and systematize the main tenets in Rawls’s and Habermas’s discursive theories, and will suggest that the principles of justice (Rawls) and universalization (Habermas) can and play the role of mandates of optimalization in real deliberations on justice.

Norms in Deliberation: The Role of the Principles of Justice and Universalization in Practical Discourses on the Justice of Norms

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Discursive theories of justice have been questioned for putting forward high-level principles that should nevertheless play a role in practical discourses in...

Norms in Deliberation: The Role of the Principles of Justice and Universalization in Practical Discourses on the Justice of Norms

Published Online: Dec 06, 2018

Page range: 11 - 29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0026

Keywords
discursive theories, principles of justice, principle of universalization, deliberation, Rawls, Habermas

© 2018 Cristina Corredor, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Norms in Deliberation: The Role of the Principles of Justice and Universalization in Practical Discourses on the Justice of Norms

Published Online: Dec 06, 2018

Page range: 11 - 29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0026

Keywordsdiscursive theories, principles of justice, principle of universalization, deliberation, Rawls, Habermas

© 2018 Cristina Corredor, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
discursive theories, principles of justice, principle of universalization, deliberation, Rawls, Habermas