Rainer Forst’s View of the Relationship between Legitimacy, Democracy, and Justice

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.276How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Legitimacy; Democracy; Justice; Ideological power

Abstract

From Rainer Forst’s standpoint, what is the link between legitimacy, democracy, and justice? Forst argues that legitimacy in modern liberal society is normatively determined by democracy and democracy by justice. In my view, there is no such relationship. I disagree with Rainer Forst’s contention that democracy is normatively dependent upon justice as establishing a proper order of justification. He believes that democracy is a justificatory practice that should be undertaken in a normative rather than a factual sense. According to my argument, people within a normative order are unconsciously subject to ideological power in justificatory practices. They, therefore, have no way of ensuring that the requirement of justice is met, that is, that the rights of everyone to justification are respected equally.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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