The Historical Evolution of Liberalism in the United States

Author: Qian Manru
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The engineering of American contemporary liberalism, after religion, is the struggle to find a way for opposing parties to coexist in a world without fixed meaning. As Rawls repeatedly emphasizes, his theory of justice or political liberalism attempts to address the issue of diversified conceptions of the good that arise in modern democratic societies like the United States, specifically how to coordinate justice and determine shared values in a society without an official belief or overarching guiding ideology.