Study Set Content:
Total consensual agreement on the good is almost(blank) to realize
impossible
A shared(blank) is a community’s shared horizon of understanding that is born from the free and fair engagement of persons who bear different frames for understanding the good.
we perspective
If people take part in a set up where free discourse of rationalities is allowed, they will be engaged in a process of
mutual justification
is founded on mutual justification, a means to which people can settle differing viewpoints.
Creative dialogue
The participants in creative discourse may begin to understand that not all conceptions of the good are acceptable to
all people
It is difficult to arrive at a sense of (blank) born from such a communicative situation.
solidarity
presents what he understands to be the best way to come to a shared conception of the good.
Habernas
He articulates the conditions for the possibility of coming to a consensus on the good based on a shared
we-perspective
This shared opinion on the good is the product of a (blank) where even people whose positions are not taken can accept the dominant position because it is the most reasonable and makes most sense
fair process
He proposes three basic principles of fairness:
1. All affected must be part of the process of deliberation.
2. The process must be fair such that all external influence like power and money are suspended and only the force of the better argument has influence over the participants.
3. All decisions and arguments have a “for now” characteristic
Basic Character of Discourse Procedure (Pasco et. al., 2018)
1. The process must take place in argumentative form or through th
regulated exchange information
. The process must take place in argumentative form or through the “regulated exchange information and reasons among parties who introduce and critically test
proposals
Deliberations are
inclusive and public’’
No one is excluded and those who may be possibly affected are given an equal chance to
take part
Deliberations are
un-coerced
Deliberations are un-coerced and participants are “bound only by the (blank) of communication and rules of argumentation.
presuppositions
Deliberations are free of any internal
coercion
Deliberations are free of any internal coercion that could detract from the (blank) of the participants.
equality
Deliberation aims in general at rationally motivated agreements and can in principle be indefinitely
continued
extend to any matter that can be regulated in the equal interest of all.”
Political deliberations
