عنوان

Political theory and social practices :

شماره

TLets550723

عنوان اصلي

Political theory and social practices :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Gledhill, James

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

G.A. Cohen, Rawls, Habermas and the problem of self-grounding

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2010

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

امتياز متن

2010

متن يادداشت

In a time of transitions, post-Rawlsian political philosophy is itself in transition, engaged in a methodological dispute regarding the relationship between political theory and changing social practices. This thesis enters this dispute through engaging with John Rawls's philosophical project and the two leading but contrasting critiques of Rawls's constructivist methodology. I first seek to rescue constructivism from G.A. Cohen's critique of its fact-dependence, but secondly argue with Jürgen Habermas for a shift from constructivism to reconstructivism. Part I establishes a theoretical framework. I analyse competing paradigms of the relationship between normative principles and social practices and situate them in relation to the problem of self-grounding. This is the methodological problem of how, in accordance with a conception of freedom as autonomy, philosophy can find normative foundations within existing social practices. While Cohen rejects this problem in arguing for a choice between realism and utopianism, Rawls's realistic utopianism and Habermas's utopian realism are both driven by the problem of self-grounding. Part II defends Rawls's constructivism against Cohen's criticism of its restricted focus on the basic structure of society and fact-dependence. Part III analyses and critiques the development of Rawls's project. It analyses Rawls's concern with the problem of stability and critiques from a Habermasian perspective the approach to the problem of self-grounding this represents. Part IV argues that post-Rawlsian deliberative democrats who have sought to combine ideas from Rawls and Habermas also fail to adequately address this methodological problem. Part V engages with Habermas on his own terms. I first analyse Habermas's reconstruction of the tension between facticity and validity in morality and politics. On this basis, I conclude that Habermas's procedural reconstructivism allows him to more successfully address the problem of self-grounding than Rawls's substantive constructivism, and assess the implications of this conclusion in theory and practice.

موضوع مستند نشده

JC Political theory

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gledhill, James

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y