No. 9 (2015): Joint Commitment: Collective Intentionality, Norms and Justice
Session 4. Just Joint Commitments

May Joint Commitment Stabilize Modus Vivendi?

Published 2016-04-07

Keywords

  • unreasonableness,
  • liberalism,
  • Rawls

How to Cite

Sala, R. (2016). May Joint Commitment Stabilize Modus Vivendi?. Phenomenology and Mind, (9), 172–180. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-18162

Abstract

This contribution intends to extend my previous attempt to defend modus vivendi as an alternative way to include people who do not share the essentials of a liberal society. The idea was to respond to a claim to realism: besides loyal citizens, whose doctrines overlap on the basics of a fair society, there are people whose loyalty towards institutions is not be wholehearted – since they do not concur to their public justification – but who may endorse them in a stable way. I consider now a further way to deal with inclusion, compliance and stability: besides division on fundamental commitments and disagreement about values, peaceful coexistence may find strength in an alternative way to conceive the attitude of cooperation as rooted in a joint commitment. My argument will be presented as follows: a) I recall my conclusions about my idea of stable modus vivendi; b) I try and improve the wished outcome of stability in spite of partial political loyalty by reinforcing this with the argument of joint commitment; c) I draw some interlocutory conclusions.