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The “Integrity” of Rawls’ Political Liberalism and Its Amendment: A Religious Criticism

XIA Qing-bo   

  1. School of Marxism, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan 243002, China
  • Online:2019-07-25 Published:2019-07-25

Abstract: Rawls’ “principle of legitimacy of political liberalism”, based on “the concept of consensus”, presupposes “a view of religious restraint”. To his critics, this view of religious restraint inevitably leads to the problem of “integrity” religious integrity of believers, as religious reasons are “enclosed”, is “divided into two parts”. Rawls responds to criticism by relaxing restrictions on religious reasons, but such response is far from satisfactory to critics; the “convergent concept”, though with difficulties of all sorts, is more inclusive of religion. Generally speaking, we should respect the religious integrity of believers, but this does not mean “Non-boundary freedom”. In addition, it is not appropriate to exaggerate the division between political liberalism and its critics.

Key words: Rawls, political Liberalism, integrity problem, religious criticism

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  • B712.5
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