Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) revises A Theory of Justice by grounding justice in political not metaphysical claims, responding to communitarian and other critics.
Rawls responds to critics by abandoning the claim that justice as fairness is a comprehensive moral theory; instead it is a freestanding political conception that citizens with different comprehensive doctrines can accept for different reasons — the idea of public reason and overlapping consensus.
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