RAWLS’S CONCEPT OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM

Abstract

John Rawls’s concept of political liberalism provides new arguments in defi ning
political concept of justice. The issues of social inequality and distribution of goods in
society are put aside and in the political focus are the citizens who are in favor of different
philosophical, moral and religious universal doctrines. The central issue which the concept
of political liberalism seeks to resolve is how is it possible for a society made up of
pluralism of different confronting universal doctrines to be well-ordered and stable. The
paper focuses on essential elements of political liberalism whose aim is to regulate the
plural coexistence of universal doctrines.