Rawls frames political liberalism as securing stability among reasonable pluralists

Evidence

According to Rawls, the problem of political liberalism can be formulated in the following way: ‘How is it possible that mere may exist over time a stable and just society of free and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable religious, philosophical and moral docuines?’· The problem, in his view, is one of political justict. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 107

Categorization

• XREF: Rawls’s question is the precise foil for Mouffe’s later charge that the ‘reasonable’ filter smuggles in exclusion; directly serves the reader’s test of whether a non-exclusionary consensus is coherent. — 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 and Habermas seek rational consensus to stabilize liberal democracy. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 429; Rawls’s political consensus is positioned as beyond legitimate contestation once reached — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 126 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Rawls’s well-ordered society eliminates politics and requires coercion of dissenters #contradicts (0.84) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 129
• Rawls’s political consensus is positioned as beyond legitimate contestation once reached #responds-to (0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 126