 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1994 - 370 pages
...greatest consequences for political philosophy, for it introduced a problem unknown to the ancient world: How is it possible that there may exist over time...by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines. . . . What are the fair terms of social cooperation between citizens characterized as free... | |
 | Jerzy Szacki - Political Science - 1995 - 228 pages
...does not treat them as equals if it prefers one conception to another.'59 Thus, the basic question is: 'How is it possible that there may exist over time...and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable though incompatible religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines? Put another way: How is it possible... | |
 | Seyla Benhabib - History - 1996 - 388 pages
...differences.3 According to Rawls, the problem of political liberalism can be formulated in the following way: "How is it possible that there may exist over time...religious, philosophical and moral doctrines?"4 The problem is, in his view, one of political justice, and it requires the establishment of fair terms... | |
 | Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven Douglas Smith - Law - 1996 - 292 pages
...Political Liberalism is fairly straightforward. According to Rawls, liberal theory faces a conundrum: "How is it possible that there may exist over time...by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines?"7 The conundrum arises because Rawlsian liberalism posits that the supreme political value... | |
 | Bernard P. Dauenhauer - Political Science - 1996 - 260 pages
...harmonious, stable society that remained pluralistic. Thus, the problem of political liberalism is: How is it possible that there may exist over time...by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines? This is a problem of political justice, not a problem about the highest good.13 In general,... | |
 | Hub Zwart - Philosophy - 1996 - 222 pages
...pluralist society. Political liberalism is the answer to a question: how is it possible to maintain over time a stable and just society of free and equal citizens in the absence of a shared comprehensive (religious, philosophical or moral) doctrine? Such a thing... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...greatest consequences for political philosophy, for it introduced a problem unknown to the ancient world: How is it possible that there may exist over time...by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines? . . . What are the fair terms of social cooperation between citizens characterized as free... | |
 | John Kekes - Philosophy - 1997 - 260 pages
...Rawls (1993: xxv) identifies "the problem of liberalism" as, "How is it possible that there exists over time a stable and just society of free and equal...by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines?" And speaking from the liberal right, William Galston (1991: 10-11) says, "The liberal conception... | |
 | Marietta Stepaniants, Ron Bontekoe - Political Science - 1997 - 492 pages
...become central for Rawls, who now formulates the problem of political liberalism in the following way: "How is it possible that there may exist over time a stable and just society of free and eqnal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable religious, philosophical and moral doctrines?"l The... | |
 | Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson - Environmental ethics - 1998 - 278 pages
...framework of the free institutions of a constitutional democratic regime' (ibid'. xvi). Rawls then asks: 'How is it possible that there may exist over time...divided by reasonable religious, philosophical and moral doctrines:*' (ibid'. xxv). In order to answer this question we must construct the principles of political... | |
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How is it possible that there may exist over time a stable and just society of free and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable though incompatible religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines? 
