The Sociology of Law
Online ISSN : 2424-1423
Print ISSN : 0437-6161
ISSN-L : 0437-6161
A Theory of Social Order as Public Philosophy in Rawls's Political Justice
Ryohei Itabashi
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2006 Volume 2006 Issue 65 Pages 192-216,257

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how political justice in Rawls answers the essential sociological question of how social political order is formed and how political space where free and equal citizens agree on the political conception is constructed given a fact of pluralism of reasonable moral comprehensive values in democratic constitutional regime.
Firstly I argue about the relation of justice to good and emphasize that political space contains reasonable morality although it transcends the comprehensive values or doctrines.
Secondly I indicate that the political-moral conception in Rawls is not the conception which aims at justifying the disorder or complete convergence of moral values but the reasonable social order conception which draws the comprehensive values or doctrines into common space and at the same time guarantees the liberties of the comprehensive values which depart from common shared political space.
Thirdly I analyze how the political judgments or convictions are transformed into the political conception through the communication in citizens, theorist and hypothetical representatives.
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