La tolerancia liberal en la obra de John Rawls y de Friedrich A. Hayek

Abstract

In the current discussion on tolerance, the predominant liberal theory is still largely connected with past arguments put forward in the discussion on religious tolerance. As its unfolding was one of the roots of liberalism, many liberal authors now assume that the church/State separation provides the paradigm for addressing other types of differences. This is precisely the path taken in J. Rawls’ Political Liberalism, in which we find interesting similarities with the thought of F. A. Hayek, thus supporting the theory that Rawls managed to justify tolerance using the typical premises of classic liberalism, probably because liberalism is not intellectually equipped to defend any other type of tolerance.