In this paper we investigate ways to comply with justice in a liberal democracy. In order to do that, we sketch Rawls’s account of moral-consensus stability and discuss the alternative idea of stability reached through a modus vivendi. We defend modus vivendi as a way to achieve stability backed by a variety of reasons and even by ‘non-reasons’. By ‘non-reasons’ we mean alternative sources of motivation for compliance as a precondition of a stable coexistence. We focus on such sources, which differ from reasons and beliefs, that are practices, shared values, and value experiences, in light of both a theoretical- political and a qualitative social-ontological perspective. We argue that indivi- duals who experience the same values become collectives and even stable ones: the sharing of values creates social unity and makes collectives solid and resistant to individualistically centrifugal tendencies.
Compliance with justice: shared values and modus vivendi / De Vecchi, Francesca; Sala, Roberta. - In: CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. - ISSN 1743-8772. - 26:1(2023), pp. 56-70. [10.1080/13698230.2021.1893252]
Compliance with justice: shared values and modus vivendi
De Vecchi, Francesca;Sala, Roberta
2023-01-01
Abstract
In this paper we investigate ways to comply with justice in a liberal democracy. In order to do that, we sketch Rawls’s account of moral-consensus stability and discuss the alternative idea of stability reached through a modus vivendi. We defend modus vivendi as a way to achieve stability backed by a variety of reasons and even by ‘non-reasons’. By ‘non-reasons’ we mean alternative sources of motivation for compliance as a precondition of a stable coexistence. We focus on such sources, which differ from reasons and beliefs, that are practices, shared values, and value experiences, in light of both a theoretical- political and a qualitative social-ontological perspective. We argue that indivi- duals who experience the same values become collectives and even stable ones: the sharing of values creates social unity and makes collectives solid and resistant to individualistically centrifugal tendencies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.