Open AccessRAWLS’S CONCEPT OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM
Author(s) -
Duško Vejnović,
Stefan Vukojević
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
defendology/defendologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2233-0895
pISSN - 1450-6157
DOI - 10.7251/defeng1637006v
Subject(s) - liberalism , classical liberalism , politics , aside , political philosophy , sociology , primary goods , law and economics , economic justice , inequality , political science , law , environmental ethics , philosophy , linguistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
John Rawls’s concept of political liberalism provides new arguments in defi ningpolitical concept of justice. The issues of social inequality and distribution of goods insociety are put aside and in the political focus are the citizens who are in favor of differentphilosophical, moral and religious universal doctrines. The central issue which the conceptof political liberalism seeks to resolve is how is it possible for a society made up ofpluralism of different confronting universal doctrines to be well-ordered and stable. Thepaper focuses on essential elements of political liberalism whose aim is to regulate theplural coexistence of universal doctrines.