Rawlsian Political Liberalism: Containment of Unreasonableness in Liberal Constitutional Democracies

This chapter relinquishes one of the main components of political reasonableness, namely, BoJ and offers two central arguments for the modification of Rawlsian theoretical perspective: (i) BoJ is needlessly demanding for convinced Muslim citizens and (ii) BoJ, as a descriptive claim itself cannot explain why religious citizens should uphold a form of toleration that requires them to honour their epistemic restraint in politics. It also proposes a specific formulation for how to prevent the dissemination of strictly and irreconcilably intolerant views to maintain the stability of a well-ordered society.