Rawls, Law-Making and Liberal Democratic Toleration: From 'Theory' to 'Political Liberalism' and 'The Law of Peoples.'

Abstract

This paper articulates Rawls's conception of toleration within international political and law-making activity set out in Law of within and by reference to the architectonic first set out in Theory and then recast in Political Liberalism. The aim of so doing is to shed much needed light on Rawls's discussion in Peoples of so-called decent well-ordered peoples and of benevolent absolutisms.