Overlapping consensus in pluralist societies: simulating Rawlsian full reflective equilibrium.
The fact of reasonable pluralism in liberal democracies threatens the stability of such societies. John Rawls proposed a solution to this problem: The different comprehensive moral doctrines endorsed by the citizens overlap on a shared political conception of justice, e.g. his justice as fairness. O...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27 |
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