Rawls's Problem of Stability

Social Theory and Practice 22 (3):375-395 (1996)
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Abstract

Rawls addresses the problem of the stability of his conception of justice by arguing that it could become the focus of an “overlapping consensus,” in which individuals with diverse moral, philosophical, and religious views all accept the Rawlsian conception for different reasons. Using the example of Christian fundamentalists, I show that, subject to constraints that Rawls himself delineates, no such consensus is possible.

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Michael Huemer
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