Public Ethics for Real People

Enrico Biale is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale. He is the author of Interessi democratici e ragioni partigiane. Una concezione politica della democrazia (2018) and Dilemmi politici (2010).Federica Liveriero is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia.  She is the author of Relational Liberalism: Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World (2023) and Decisioni pubbliche e disaccordo. Giustificazioni e compromessi tra pari epistemici (2017).Roberta Sala is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. She is the author of La verità sospesa. Ragionevolezza e irragionevolezza nella filosofia politica di John Rawls (2012) and others.

• Introduction.-Part I: Public Ethics and its Challenges.- Chapter 1. The Toolkit of Public Ethics.- Chapter 2. The Crisis of Normativity.-Chapter 3. Autonomy for Real People.-Part II: Recognition and Social Conflicts.- Chapter 4. Recognition as Representative Claim.- Chapter 5. Recognition as Legitimization and Second-Personal Justice.- Chapter 6. Galeotti on Multicultural Recognition: The Case of The Danish Cartoons and Quran Burnings.-Part III: Democratic Reasoning and Collective Distortions.- Chapter 7. Can the Rule of Law Meet the Hobbes Challenge? Democracy and the Rule of Law.-Chapter 8. Like the Racist Uncle at the Christmas Dinner Table’. Democracy, Hate Speech, and Gender Critical Beliefs.- Chapter 9. Galeotti v. Mills about Non-Ideal Theory: A Defense of Reparatory Justice.- Chapter 10. Galeotti on Self-Deception.