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Political Liberalism is an update to John Rawls' 1971 Theory of Justice in which Rawls attempts to show that his theory of justice is not a "comprehensive conception of the good", but is instead compatible with a liberal conception of the role of justice: namely, that government should be neutral between competing conceptions of the good. Rawls tries to show that his two principles of justice, properly understood, form a "theory of the right" (as opposed to a theory of the good) which would be supported by all reasonable individuals, even under a condition of reasonable value pluralism. The mechanism by which he demonstrates this is called "overlapping consensus". Essentially, Rawls creates a distinction between the public realm, in which an absolute moral standard- that of liberal justice- is universally applicable and supported, because that standard has been agreed upon in the original position; and the private realm, in which the liberal idea of freedom of conscience- respect for value pluralism, and therefore subjectivism- is preserved. "Overlapping consensus" is the area of agreement, shared by all reasonable doctrines, which mirrors the agreement reached in the original position.

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