The Study Of Rawls’s "Over Lapping Consensus" Concept

Starting from the modern democratic constitutionalism, social political cultural traditionthat John Rolls, the contemporary society is a rational society, this is a fact that can not bechanged. In the political pluralism, cultural diversity, value pluralism development today, hasthe public rational modern citizens "political justice" concept into a kind of "overlappingconsensus".Overlapping consensus of three main idea as Rawls in the "political liberalism" raisedin the book (the idea of overlapping consensus, the priority of the right kind of idea, idea ofpublic reason), it is the basic system of Rawls’s political philosophy. Overlapping consensusis that in the modern democratic society diversified, with public rational citizen in holdingtheir rational philosophy, religious theory and moral theory. At the same time, seekingmutual consensus, so as to reach the political conception of justice consensus. Look in Rawls,overlapping consensus reached with rational citizen can provide support for the moderndemocratic society stability.Text interpretation based on "political liberalism" in the book of the idea of overlappingconsensus content as the foundation, and from the academic existing research results, try theidea of overlapping consensus Rawls of inquiry. The full text of the main part is divided intothree parts: the first part start from history, by Rock, Rousseau and Kant’s introduction, findthe overlapping consensus theory source and a comprehensive analysis of Rawls’s concept ofthe "overlapping consensus" historical background; the second part explains the internalrelations of the basic meaning of overlapping consensus. And with the right between thegood, the public reason, and expounds the possibility of the realization of the idea ofoverlapping consensus; The third part mainly analyzes the rationality and the consensus ofscholars thought of it caused controversy, and points out the practical value of the thought.The author thinks, this research has not only rich and contributed to the development ofconsensus theory, but also provide some meaningful inspiration and reference for us to builda socialist harmonious society today.