Rawls’s well-ordered society eliminates politics by relegating conflict to private life.

Evidence

A conception of justice is mutually recognized by reasonable and rational citizens who act according to its injunctions. They probably have very different and even conflicting conceptions of the good, but those are strictly private matters and they do not interfere with their public life. Conflicts of interest about economic and social issues - if they still arise - are resolved smoothly through discussions within the framework of public reason, by invoking the principles of justice that everybody endorses. If an unreasonable or irrational person happens to disagree with that state of affairs and intends to disrupt that nice consensus, she or he must be forced, through coercion, to submit to the principles of justice. Such a coercion, however, has nothing to do with oppression, since it is justified by the exercise of reason. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 129

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what a ‘well-ordered society’ means in Rawls: a polity drained of public political contest.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s agonistic-pluralism test: this is the consensus-based alternative Mouffe rejects. — connects to: Rawls’s well-ordered society erases the adversary and expels legitimate opposition from the public sphere — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 69; Rawls’s well-ordered society eliminates politics and requires coercion of dissenters — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 129; Rawls’s well-ordered society erases the adversary from democratic politics. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 69 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Rawls’s well-ordered society eliminates politics and requires coercion of dissenters #expands (0.95) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 129
• Rawls’s well-ordered society erases the adversary from democratic politics. #corroborates (0.90) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 69
• Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples #expands (0.78)
• Political disenfranchisement privatizes the individual and reduces social relations to competition governed by chance. #expands (0.76) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 387
• A ruler can pacify society by draining each class’s institutions of political meaning. #exemplifies (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1811
• A society functionally merged with the state serves public purposes while privatizing citizens’ consciousness. #qualifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 577