Political Liberalism is a 1993 book by the American philosopher John Rawls, in which he elaborates on how the argument of his earlier A Theory of Justice (1971) should be applied in a pluralist political context. Rawls attempts to show that his theory of justice is not a comprehensive conception of the good but is instead compatible with a liberal conception of the role of justice, in which government stays neutral between competing conceptions of the good, and that his two principles of justice form a theory of the right that reasonable individuals could support under conditions of reasonable pluralism through what he calls an overlapping consensus. The book also develops his idea of public reason.
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Political Liberalism is a 1993 book by the American philosopher John Rawls, in which he elaborates on how the material in his earlier work, A Theory of Justice (1971), should be applied in a pluralist political context.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Rawls
Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyDrafted By: John Rawls, Page text
In Political Liberalism [ PL ] (1993), he recast the role of political philosophy, accommodating it to the effectively permanent “reasonable pluralism” of religious, philosophical, and other comprehensive doctrines or worldviews that characterize modern societies.
In Group: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Political Works, Page text
In Political Liberalism [ PL ] (1993), he recast the role of political philosophy, accommodating it to the effectively permanent “reasonable pluralism” of religious, philosophical, and other comprehensive doctrines or worldviews that characterize modern societies.
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