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Political Liberalism
Author	John Rawls
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	Political philosophy
Genre(s)	Nonfiction
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print
Pages	496
ISBN	0231130899
OCLC Number	56419326
Dewey Decimal	320.51 22
LC Classification	JC578 .R37 2005

This article is about John Rawls's book 'Political Liberalism.' For a broader description and history of liberal philosophy, see the article: Liberalism.

Political Liberalism is an update to John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1971) in which he 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: namely, that government should be neutral between competing conceptions of the good. Rawls tries to show that his two principles of justice, properly understood, form a "theory of the right" (as opposed to a theory of the good) which would be supported by all reasonable individuals, even under conditions of reasonable pluralism. The mechanism by which he demonstrates this is called "overlapping consensus".

[edit] References

• Rawls，John (1996) Political Liberalism，New York：Columbia University Press.

[edit] See also

• American philosophy

v • d • e John Rawls Major works A Theory of Justice · Political Liberalism · The Law of Peoples · Justice as Fairness: A Restatement Notable ideas "Justice as Fairness" · Original position · Reflective equilibrium · Overlapping consensus · Public reason Related topics Liberalism · Political philosophy · Justice

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