The order of public reason : a theory of freedom and morality in a diverse and bounded world

In This Innovative And Important Work, Gerald Gaus Advances A Revised, And More Realistic, Account Of Public Reason Liberalism, Showing How, In The Midst Of Fundamental Disagreement About Values And Moral Beliefs, We Can Achieve A Moral And Political Order That Treats All As Free And Equal Moral Persons. The First Part Of This Work Analyzes Social Morality As A System Of Authoritative Moral Rules. Drawing On An Earlier Generation Of Moral Philosophers Such As Kurt Baier And Peter Strawson As Well As Current Work In The Social Sciences, Gaus Argues That Our Social Morality Is An Evolved Social Fact, Which Is The Necessary Foundation Of A Mutually Beneficial Social Order. The Second Part Considers How This System Of Social Moral Authority Can Be Justified To All Moral Persons. Drawing On The Tools Of Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Experimental Psychology, And Evolutionary Theory, Gaus Shows How A Free Society Can Secure A Moral Equilibrium That Is Endorsed By All, And How A Just State Respects, And Develops, Such An Equilibrium--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. The Fundamental Problem; Part I. Social Order And Social Morality: 2. The Failure Of Instrumentalism; 3. Social Morality As The Sphere Of Rules; 4. Emotion And Reason In Social Morality; Part Ii. Real Public Reason: 5. The Justificatory Problem And The Deliberative Model; 6. The Rights Of The Moderns; 7. Moral Equilibrium And Moral Freedom; 8. The Moral And Political Orders; Appendix A. The Plurality Of Morality; Appendix B. Mozick's Attempt To Solve The Prisoner's Dilemma; Appendix C. Deontic Utility Functions; Appendix D. The Kantian Coordination Game; Appendix E. Protection Of Property Rights And Economic Freedom In States That Do Best At Protecting Civil Rights. Gerald Gaus. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Half Page......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Epigraph......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 14 I The Fundamental Problem......Page 23 1 Social Morality......Page 24 2 Moral Authority among Free and Equal Persons......Page 36 3 Evaluative Diversity and the Problem of Indeterminacy......Page 58 PART ONE: SOCIAL ORDER AND SOCIAL MORALITY......Page 73 II The Failure of Instrumentalism......Page 75 4 The Instrumentalist Approach to Social Order......Page 76 5 Revisionist Theories......Page 92 6 Orthodox Instrumentalism......Page 109 III Social Morality as the Sphere of Rules......Page 123 7 The Evolution of Rule-Following Punishers......Page 125 8 Deontic Reasoning......Page 144 9 The Rationality of Following Rules......Page 152 10 Moral Rules as Social Rules......Page 185 IV Emotion and Reason in Social Morality......Page 205 11 Moral Demands and the Moral Emotions......Page 207 12 Moral Emotions and Moral Autonomy......Page 227 13 The Reasons One Has......Page 254 PART TWO: REAL PUBLIC REASON......Page 281 V The Justificatory Problem and the Deliberative Model......Page 283 14 On Modeling Public Justification......Page 285 15 Proposals......Page 314 16 Evaluating Proposals and the Problem of Indeterminacy......Page 325 VI The Rights of the Moderns......Page 356 17 Arguments from Abstraction and the Claims of Agency......Page 357 18 Jurisdictional Rights......Page 392 VII Moral Equilibrium and Moral Freedom......Page 411 19 Coordinating on a Morality......Page 413 20 The Evolution of Morality......Page 431 21 The Testing Conception......Page 446 VIII The Moral and Political Orders......Page 470 22 The Authority of the State......Page 471 23 The Justification of Coercive Laws......Page 501 24 Private Property and the Redistributive State......Page 530 25 Further Functions of the State and Practical Paretianism......Page 551 Concluding Remarks on Moral Freedom and Moral Theory......Page 569 Appendices......Page 572 Appendix A: The Plurality of Morality......Page 573 Appendix B: Economic Freedom in States that Best Protect Civil Rights......Page 580 Bibliography......Page 583 Index......Page 613 "In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised, and more realistic, account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and political order that treats all as free and equal moral persons. The first part of this work analyzes social morality as a system of authoritative moral rules. Drawing on an earlier generation of moral philosophers such as Kurt Baier and Peter Strawson as well as current work in the social sciences, Gaus argues that our social morality is an evolved social fact, which is the necessary foundation of a mutually beneficial social order. The second part considers how this system of social moral authority can be justified to all moral persons. Drawing on the tools of game theory, social choice theory, experimental psychology, and evolutionary theory, Gaus shows how a free society can secure a moral equilibrium that is endorsed by all, and how a just state respects, and develops, such an equilibrium"-- Résumé de l'éditeur "In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised, and more realistic, account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and political order that treats all as free and equal moral persons. The first part of this work analyzes social morality as a system of authoritative moral rules. Drawing on an earlier generation of moral philosophers such as Kurt Baier and Peter Strawson as well as current work in the social sciences, Gaus argues that our social morality is an evolved social fact, which is the necessary foundation of a mutually beneficial social order. The second part considers how this system of social moral authority can be justified to all moral persons. Drawing on the tools of game theory, social choice theory, experimental psychology, and evolutionary theory, Gaus shows how a free society can secure a moral equilibrium that is endorsed by all, and how a just state respects, and develops, such an equilibrium"-- Provided by publisher