Rawls' and Habermas' competing understandings of reason and its role in creating a just or legitimate society.

John Rawls and JOrgen Habermas argue that the best society is a rational society. But their visions of reason and the societies that flow from them are markedly different.

Explain Rawls' and Habermas' competing understandings of reason and its role in creating a just or legitimate society. Is one vision more persuasive than the other? Why or why not?

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