• In Defense of Moderate Inclusivism: Revisiting Rawls and Habermas on Religion in the Public Sphere 

      Jakobsen, Jonas; Fjørtoft, Kjersti (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-17)
      The paper discusses Rawls’ and Habermas’ theories of deliberative democracy, focusing on the question of religious reasons in political discourse. Whereas Rawls as well as Habermas defend a fully inclusivist position on the use of religious reasons in the ‘background culture’ (Rawls) or ‘informal public sphere’ (Habermas), we defend a moderately inclusivist position. Moderate inclusivism welcomes ...
    • Moderate inclusivism and the conversational translation proviso: Revising Habermas's ethics of citizenship 

      Jakobsen, Jonas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Habermas’ ‘ethics of citizenship’ raises a number of relevant concerns about the dangers of a secularistic exclusion of religious contributions to public deliberation, on the one hand, and the dangers of religious conflict and sectarianism in politics, on the other. Agreeing largely with these concerns, the paper identities four problems with Habermas’ approach, and attempts to overcome them: (a) ...
    • Populismens retorikk: trussel eller ressurs for deliberativt demokrati? 

      Jakobsen, Jonas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Å deliberere (eng: to deliberate) vil si å drøfte noe, for eksempel sannheten av en påstand eller riktigheten av en handling, ved å vurdere grunner for og imot. At en demokratiteori er «deliberativ», betyr som minimum at den tildeler offentlig politisk diskusjon en eller flere sentrale funksjoner i et velfungerende demokrati. Til forskjell fra «aggregative» modeller som fokuserer på stemmegiving ...