Abstract

My main aim in this paper is to analyze the problem of moral justification in John Rawls`s works such as A Theory of Justice (TJ, IX, § 89), Political Liberalism (PL III, § 2), Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (JF I, § 9), The Law of Peoples (LoP I, § 1), “Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics” (ODPE), “The Independence of Moral Theory” (IMT), “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical” (JFPnM). I wish  to characterize the theory of justice as fairness as a coherentist system of justification, that relies with a holistic coherentist epistemology, a social contract theory that introduces a social ontology and a pragmatist strategy in the contractarian theory. In the scope of this work, I will analyze the core characteristics of the holistic coherentist epistemology presupposed and how its solve the problems of epistemic regress, dogmatism, dualism, asymmetry and circularity.  

Keywords: moral justification, moral epistemology, holistic coherentism.