LIBERTY: THE POSSIBILITY CONDITION OF PLURALISM FROM RAWS’ THOUGHT
How to establish rules for coexistence between a person who has a religious faith and another one who does not have any faith? This essay proposes that the concept of liberty is the basis of a plural society. According to John Locke e John Stuart Mill, this paper reconstructs the concept of liberty...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repository: | Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31429 |
| Online Access: | http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/31429 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Liberalism pluralism tolerance. Liberalismo pluralismo tolerancia. tolerância. |
| Summary: | How to establish rules for coexistence between a person who has a religious faith and another one who does not have any faith? This essay proposes that the concept of liberty is the basis of a plural society. According to John Locke e John Stuart Mill, this paper reconstructs the concept of liberty and exposes the main arguments of classical liberalism. In accordance with John Rawls, liberty becomes the first principle of justice as fairness of a well-ordered society, which is part of the public reason and the political conception of justice. It defends liberty as the necessary condition of pluralism, that is, liberty is a radical basis of a plural society. |
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