Uma teoria política da ação: uma defesa da ideia de justificação pública do liberalismo político de John Rawls

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Yago Condé Ubaldo de Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; DIREITO - FACULDADE DE DIREITO; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teorias da justiça; Justificação pública; Teorias da ação; Epistemologia; Liberalismo político; Direito - Filosofia; Rawls, John, 1921-2002; Liberalismo; Justiça (Filosofia)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/46918; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-1912

This work addresses Gerald Gaus's critique of liberal theories that, despite considering the problem of public justification as a matter of first importance, do not offer satisfactory bases to support their approaches – in particular, they do not start from a solid understanding of the very concept of justification, a matter which the author tries to remedy by building an epistemological approach. To offer an answer to this criticism, I develop an interpretation of John Rawls's theory of justice that highlights the role of a conception of the person and practical rationality and how they lead to his idea of publica reason, so that Political Liberalism may be reconstructed as a political theory of action. This reading is intended to show that the author's approach to public justification has more solid foundations than initially conceived, and stems from a fundamental methodological position on the relationship between political philosophy and epistemology and other fields of knowledge.