Abstract

OLIVEIRA DE SOUSA, FELIPE. THE OBJECTIVITY OF BELIEFS, REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT AND POLITICAL DELIBERATION. Díkaion [online]. 2011, vol.20, n.2, pp.213-236. ISSN 0120-8942.

This paper is part of a broader argument that seeks to offer a justification for political (and law's) authority. The aims here are two-fold: to investigate the role of truth in political argument and to place the problem of reasonable disagreement. More precisely, the argument focuses on the possibility of political deliberation. Political deliberation figures as a preliminary stage of political decision-making. It has to do with a confrontation between various incompatible substantive beliefs which, in despite of this, seem to be all reasonable. How can citizens holding incompatible beliefs engage in a common enterprise of justifying them to one another? That is the main question.

Keywords : Beliefs; objectivity; truth; reasonable disagreement; political deliberation.

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