Revista Filosofía UIS

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2014): Revista Filosofía UIS
Research Article

Religion, secularism and justice. Habermas´ account of the role of religion in the public sphere and the aristotelian virtue of justice

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  • Javier Orlando Aguirre Román,
  • Alonso Silva Rojas
Javier Orlando Aguirre Román
Universidad Industrial de Santander
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Alonso Silva Rojas
Universidad Industrial de Santander- UIS
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Published 2014-11-04

Keywords

  • justice,
  • religion,
  • Habermas,
  • Aristotle,
  • public sphere

How to Cite

Aguirre Román, J. O., & Silva Rojas, A. (2014). Religion, secularism and justice. Habermas´ account of the role of religion in the public sphere and the aristotelian virtue of justice. Revista Filosofía UIS, 13(2), 85–108. Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafilosofiauis/article/view/4993

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Abstract

In this article we propose that Habermas´ account of the role of religion in the public sphere follows the Aristotelian model of distributive justice. After presenting a way in which Aristotle´s notion of distributive justice can be used to assess participation within political debates, the text will relate such a presentation with Habermas´ discussion on the role of religion in the public sphere of a deliberative democracy. Finally, in the third part of the text, we will present some conclusions.

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