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Deliberative democracy and the value neutrality of the state

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2014

Abstract

In the paper, I try to clarify the current scientific discussion on the issue of deliberative democracy. It is analysed in the context of a liberal view on the inevitableness and feasibility of the state neutrality.

Moreover, I present basic Rawlsian principles of public reason and of comprehensive doctrines which are both supposed to be beneficial for achieving the widest societal consensus on political values. Furthemore, I take into account the fact of value pluralism in contemporary societies in the phase of late modernity.

I strive to formulate and defend the idea of repeating deliberation as a solution of the problem of intrusion of personal values into the realm of political values. The purpose of this idea is to maintain strict value neutrality of a liberal-democratic state providing decent living conditions for all of its citizens.