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Public Reason and Moral Repair

Larson, Luke
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I argue that both major approaches to public reason liberalism include duties of restraint for legislators. Consensus views require exclusion of non-public reasons, and convergence requires proposal restraint. Violations of these duties create due diligence duties of moral repair, which require the wrongdoer to make a genuine and reasonable effort to normalize moral relations with those wronged. I argue that apology is one favorable route for moral repair. However, it is difficult to assess the sincerity of apologies, so they often need supplemented with other morally compensatory actions. I defend the view that, on consensus accounts, legislators must provide a renewed defense of their positions in terms of public reasons, and, on convergence accounts, legislators must retract their support for positions that violate convergent restraint.

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2020-08-01
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Research Projects
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Public reason, Moral repair, Consensus, Convergence, Apology, Public justification
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Larson, Luke. "Public Reason and Moral Repair." 2020. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/17834249
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2020-05-22
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