A plurality of reasonable yet incompatible comprehensive doctrines is the normal result of the exercise of human reason. — John Rawls, Political Liberalism In this paper I propose a relativistic version of entitlement theory (§2) and argue that this vindicates naïve liberalism (§1): the view that there can be mutually recognized reasonable disagreements in religion and politics. I describe the conditions for mutually recognized reasonable disagreement (§3), and consider some objections to the proposed view (§4). 1 Naïve liberalism Richard Feldman (2007) describes a common sense epistemological view, held by most of his students in a course on religion: Although a wide variety of different religious views were represented in the class … almost all the students had a great deal of respect for th
