Rawls and Habermas seek rational consensus to stabilize liberal democracy.
Evidence
If both Rawls and Habermas, albeit in diff’crent ways, aim at reaching a form of rational consensus instead of a ‘simple modus vivendi’ or a ‘mere agreement’, it is because they believe that, by procuring stable grounds for liberal democracy, such a consensus will contribute to securing the future of liberal-democratic institutions. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 429
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Rawls frames political liberalism as securing stability among reasonable pluralists — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 107; Blocking democratic closure requires abandoning the ideal of stable consensus grounded in justice — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 357; Deliberative theorists seek rational consensus, not mere compromise or modus vivendi — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 401 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Rawls frames political liberalism as securing stability among reasonable pluralists
#expands(0.92) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 107 - Deliberative theorists seek rational consensus, not mere compromise or modus vivendi
#exemplifies(0.90) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 401 - Deliberative democrats ground legitimacy in rational consensus produced by ideal discourse procedures
#corroborates(0.88) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 219 - Habermas made democracy an explicit radical standard rather than a client-pleasing concession
#expands(0.83) - Democratic politics should mobilize passions, not eliminate them for rational consensus
#contradicts(0.82) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 462 - Common allegiance to pluralist democratic principles is necessarily a conflictual consensus
#complicates(0.80) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 464 - Blocking democratic closure requires abandoning the ideal of stable consensus grounded in justice
#contradicts(0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 357 - Rejecting consensus as impossible protects democracy from closure
#complicates(0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 146