Lost in Translation: Religion in The Public Sphere.

This paper proposes a Wittgenstein-inspired critique of the prism of translation that frames the recent literature about the debate between Rawls and Habermas on the role of religious reasons in the public sphere (Habermas 2008; Weithman 2006; Wolterstorff 1997). This debate originates with the intr...

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Publicado en:Philosophia Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 857 - 877
Autor principal: Gosselin-Tapp, Jérôme
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2018
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