International Dialogue
Abstract
The contribution that John Rawls has made to political philosophy, and liberal political philosophy more specifically, should not be underestimated. His two key texts, A Theory of Justice (1971), and Political Liberalism (1993), not only reinvigorated social contract theory, but set the foundation for much of the contemporary debate surrounding the nature of the liberal democratic state given the fact of reasonable pluralism. If the European philosophical tradition, as noted by Alfred North Whitehead, should be seen as a series of footnotes to Plato, then contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy, especially if it intersects with aspects of liberal political philosophy, could be seen as a footnote to Rawls.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Matthew
(2016)
"Rawls’s Political Liberalism,"
International Dialogue: Vol. 6, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.ID.6.1.1122
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https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/id-journal/vol6/iss1/8
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