Why Public Reason Could Not Be Too Modest: The Case of Public Reason Confucianism

Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2):163-176 (2019)
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Abstract

In Public Reason Confucianism, Sungmoon Kim presents an important Confucian political theory that seeks to combine a specific conception of Confucianism and the ideal of public reason. My article examines this theory and identifies some of the theoretical complications with Rawlsian public reason.

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