This article aims to explore critically John Rawls’ concept of political liberalism which is meant be a response the conflict and contestation ideologies, religions, other comprehensive doctrines in contemporary plural society. The key question how universalized principles justice can formulated conditionof radical pluralism characterized by different doctrines. In answering this question, Rawl...

Socrates’ infamous question, “What is Justice?” in Plato’s Republic, spawned a debate for philosophers (and societies), and the answers continue to be important and contested today. The diversity of approaches and persistence of disagreement has inclined some contemporary philosophers to adopt a position of moral relativism. Relativism is the thesis that there are many equally valid frameworks ...

Dædalus Summer 2008 ‘Cosmopolitanism’ is not–or not yet –the name of a determinate political philosophy. Although many contemporary theorists have put forward views that they describe as cosmopolitan, there is little agreement among them about the central elements of a cosmopolitan position. Almost nobody advocates the development of the kind of global state that would give the idea of ‘world c...