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In Political Liberalism John Rawls Continues And Revises The Idea Of Justice As Fairness He Presented In A Theory Of Justice, But Changes Its Philosophical Interpretation In A Fundamental Way. His Earlier Work Assumed What Rawls Calls A Well-ordered Society, One That Is Stable, Relatively Homogenous In Its Basic Moral Beliefs, And In Which There Is Broad Agreement About What Constitutes The Good Life. Yet In Modern Democratic Society A Plurality Of Incompatible And Irreconcilable Doctrines - Religious, Philosophical, And Moral - Coexist Within The Framework Of Democratic Institutions. Indeed, Free Institutions Themselves Encourage This Plurality Of Doctrines As The Normal Outgrowth Of Freedom Over Time. Recognizing This As A Permanent Condition Of Democracy, Rawls Therefore Asks, How Can A Stable And Just Society Of Free And Equal Citizens Live In Concord When Deeply Divided By These Reasonable, But Incompatible, Doctrines? His Answer Is Based On A Redefinition Of A Well-ordered Society. It Is No Longer A Society United In Its Basic Moral Beliefs But In Its Political Conception Of Justice, And This Justice Is The Focus Of An Overlapping Consensus Of Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrin

Who reads Political Liberalism?

Author

Rawls, Professor John

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231052498

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14