Knight, Habermas and Rawls on freedom, personhood and constitutional choice

Dalibor Roháč

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2012, vol. 19, issue 1, 23-43

Abstract: We evaluate Habermas' theory of discursive ethics in the context of normative political economy. His work can be viewed as an extension of Frank Knight's call for a liberal order, which would not be purely instrumental to maximization of an aggregate measure of welfare but which would take into account individuals as moral persons. We proceed by identifying parallels between Habermasian discursive ethics and contractarian theories. We attempt to identify the origin of normative statements. We are interested in how these authors proceed in terms of respect of personhood. We investigate the role and agreement in these ethical systems.

Date: 2012
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