Deliberative democracy and the duty of civility in John Rawls: from singular to plural and from subjective to objective
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Deliberative democracy, John Rawls, Duty of civilityAbstract
Among the various normative models of democracy elaborated in Political Philosophy, one of the most influential is that of deliberative democracy, whose most essential feature is the demand for public justification. John Rawls, by laying the foundations of what he called public reason, became one of the main theoretical frameworks of this democratic model. Linked to public reason, Rawls talked about the duty of civility, a moral duty consistent with it and with his idea of democracy. The citizen who fulfills it collaborates with the construction and maintenance of the democracy itself. The scope of this article is, in light of the rawlsian theory, to establish four components of distinct and apparently contradictory natures (singular, plural, subjective and objective) which, together, complete the duty of civility, making it essential for the democratic regime.
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