Let’s get radical: Extending the reach of Baylean (and Forstian) toleration

• Main Author: KUKATHAS, Chandran
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3874; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5132/viewcontent/Kukathas_Letsgetradical_2020_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In The Right to Justification Rainer Forst tells us that that social context in which humans find themselves is called ‘political’ when it is ‘an order of justification’ – an order which consists of norms and institutions that are to govern their lives together in a justified or justifiable way.² The most important normative concept that applies to this order, he tells us, is that of justice. Justice ‘overarches’ every form of political community, demanding reasons why some have rights, and asking how it is determined who possesses what claims, and how persons stand in relation to one another as authors and addresses of justifications.