In this paper, I examine the claim that Rawls’s overlapping consensus is too narrow to allow most mainstream religions’ participation in political discourse. I do so by asking whether religious exclusion is a consequence of belief or action, using conversion as a paradigm case. After concluding that this objection to Rawls is, in fact, defensible, and that the overlapping consensus excludes bot...

John Rawls (1921–2002) and his work are now squarely a subject for history. In the more than fifteen years since death, rich body of scholarship has emerged which attempts, in different ways, to understand nature, development, impact Rawls's thought from variety historical perspectives. With 2021 marking fifty A Theory Justice (1971) was first published, this special forum examines what we here...

O texto analisa quais teriam sido as razões estruturais pelas Habermas, no seu sobre a desobediência civil de 1983, estranhamente, não referencia o nome Arendt, mas Rawls. Para isso, apresenta alguns elemen tos do t ratamento arendtiano da desobediên cia que inviabilizaram alinhamento trabalho Habermas [1983] com aquele pensadora. Por fim, aponta para prox imidades teoria aq uela Rawls, muito e...

¿Qué papel juegan los animales no humanos en la filosofía política de John Rawls? En este artículo identifico tres posibles respuestas. Según respuesta integracionista, pueden ser incluidos su teoría justicia, como genuinos receptores deberes justicia. De acuerdo con compatibilista, por otra parte, justicia Rawls, pero sí encajan más amplia. Por último, según del conflicto, existe una tensión e...