Research On Rawls’ Idea Of Overlapping Consensus

The famous American philosopher John Rawls, born in1921in the United States,died in2002, he is one of the most representative figures of the twentieth centuryWestern political philosophy category. In his political and philosophical theories, oneof the biggest characteristics is that his theory on the contemporary society, apluralistic democratic society free of political and cultural background, limited in thefield of political justice, to diversify understanding of the facts, as a reasonablydiversified. Compared to some scholars, the writings of John Rawls and not that much,but in a small number of works, there are two very important book: one in the adventof the "Theory of Justice" in1971, this monograph, the development of modernWestern society, especially the development of ethics has a crucial turning point. Theadvent of the "political liberalism" in1993, is also known as a classic of politicalphilosophy.Pluralistic, democratic political development, whether the fairness and justicecan come true, if you can, how development, how to prove its legitimacy and stability?Rolls after years of exploration and research in order to explain the series of problems,complete the "political liberalism" overlapping consensus as a book a basic concept ofgreat significance to the development of the concept of justice. This articlesystematically expounded Rolls main content and significance of the idea, and striveto be more realistic and accurate rendering of the concept.The main part of this article is a total of six parts: the first part is to start from thehistory, by John Locke, the introduction-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant, tofind the the overlapping consensus theory origin: traditional social contract On themoral constructivism. The second part describes the background of the era in whichthe concept of overlapping consensus five general facts of a democratic society andthe possibility and necessity of the analysis of the concept of overlapping consensusRawls "A Theory of Justice" correction and reflection start. The third part explored indetail the basic meaning of the "overlapping consensus", as well as with the publicreason, just prior to the good intrinsic link between the main concept. The fourth partof the analysis of the steps of the realization of the concept of overlapping consensus, the overlapping consensus concept of operability, it has undergone a progressiveapproach to the evolutionary process, the steps to achieve overlapping consensus onthe possibility of realizing the concept of overlapping consensus. The fifth part ismainly Comment on the concept of overlapping consensus theoretical and practicalvalue, to do a comprehensive analysis of the value of this theory. The last part of thefocus on the analysis of the concept of overlapping consensus and some problems inthe implementation process, try a system of dialectical grasp the concept.