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To what extent does the Rawlsian goal of achieving social justice depend on an overarching consensus among cultural, religious and ideological groups?

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The consensus meant is what John Rawls calls an overlapping consensus: reasonable religious, philosophical and moral doctrines each endorsing one political conception of justice from within their own premises. Rawlsian social justice depends on it heavily for stability and legitimacy, but not for the content or justification of its principles.

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