Rawls and Habermas on Religion and Politics: Reflections on Philippine Political Culture

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  • Christopher Ryan Maboloc Linkoping University, Sweden

Abstract

What is the role of the Church in politics? Is there a way to justify such role? This paper will explore the answer to this problem in the area of deliberative democracy, and will seek to strengthen the idea that political and democratic discourse may allow for religious arguments, if and only if these arguments also purport to express public values. To shed light onto this problem, I will bring into dialogue John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, most especially with emphasis on their respective ideas concerning civil society, and hope to reconcile the role of politics and religion in Philippine democracy.

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2007): July - December 2007

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