{"id":140,"date":"2017-06-14T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:02:10","slug":"stout-rawls-and-the-idea-of-public-reason-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/current-themes\/religion-and-democracy\/stout-rawls-and-the-idea-of-public-reason-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stout, Rawls, and the idea of public reason&#8221; &#8211; Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Stout, Rawls, and the idea of public reason\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan, Phil. 2014. Stout, Rawls, and the idea of public reason. <em>Journal of Religious Ethics<\/em> 43, no.2: 540-562.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeffrey Stout claims that John Rawls&#8217;s idea of public reason (IPR) has contributed to a Christian backlash against liberalism. This paper argues that those Stout calls &#8220;antiliberal traditionalists&#8221; have misunderstood Rawls in important ways, and goes on to consider Stout&#8217;s own critiques of the IPR. While Rawls&#8217;s idea is often interpreted as a blanket prohibition on religious reasoning outside church and home, the paper will show that the very viability of the IPR depends upon a rich culture of deliberation in which all forms of reasoning can be put forth for consideration. This clarification addresses the perception that the IPR imposes an &#8220;asymmetrical burden&#8221; upon believers. The paper suggests that there are in fact good reasons why believers, <em>qua<\/em> believers, might endorse the IPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan, Phil. 2014. Stout, Rawls, and the idea of public reason. Journal of Religious Ethics 43, no.2: 540-562. Jeffrey Stout claims that John Rawls&#8217;s idea of public reason (IPR) has contributed to a Christian backlash against liberalism. This paper argues that those Stout calls &#8220;antiliberal traditionalists&#8221; have misunderstood Rawls in important ways, and goes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}