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id	eprints-29914
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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	The article contributes to the discussion of political reasoning in general, and public reason in particular, analysed from the vantage point of comparative political theory. It aims to bring out the complexity and diversity of actual political reasoning, and it serves as a corrective to some over-simplified discussions of public reason, by defenders and critics alike. I argue that the notion of public reason can be extended to and is operative in non-liberal and religious societies, with the acknowledgment that it needs to undergo a methodological metamorphosis in the process. This requires what I call multiple justificatory strategy, which allows the use of different justifications in order to respond to the plurality existing in society. However, there are certain qualifications in the use of multiple justifications. I argue that this leads to two important conclusions, (a) that the functioning of an inclusive notion of public reason requires the strategy of multiple justifications, and (b) it contests the inclusivists’ argument of the end or superfluity of public reason.
format	Journal Article
author	Salam, Dara
author_facet	Salam, Dara
authorStr	Salam, Dara
author_letter	Salam, Dara
title	Public Reason: A Stranger in Non-Liberal and Religious Societies?
publisher	Sage
publishDate	2019
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29914/