TY - BOOK ID - 7115590 TI - The order of public reason PY - 2011 SN - 9780521868563 9780511780844 9781107668058 9780511990618 0511990618 9780511992582 0511992580 0521868564 0511780842 1139887076 1282984861 9786612984860 0511991606 0511988818 0511986998 1107668050 0511993803 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political ethics KW - Political science KW - Reason KW - Ethics KW - Philosophy KW - Ethics, Political KW - Ethics in government KW - Government ethics KW - Politics, Practical KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Civics KW - Political ethics. KW - Ethics. KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Values KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Political science - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7115590 AB - 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. ER -