Rawls: limites da constituição internacional da justiça

Abstract

This article reviews the criticisms raised by Pablo da Silveira to John Rawls’s theory of justice, as for the ordering of a society of peoples. The problems of stability, overlapping consensus and public reason, poorly dealt with by Rawls in his most recent work, The Law of Peoples, are revisited here, with a view to addressing the relevance of these criticisms and their implications for Rawls’s theory of justice, as the originary concepts of citizen, overlapping consensus, and political reason are respectively replaced by those of people, constitutional consensus, and public reason. I argue that such replacements have implications both for domestic and for international spheres, eventually furthering citizens’ apathy insofar as their direct participation in political matters is concerned.