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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Main Author: Bruno Camilloto
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2019-05-01
Series:Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/31429
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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.
ISSN:1981-3694
1981-3694