Political Liberalism is a 1993 book by the American philosopher John Rawls,[1] an update to his earlier A Theory of Justice (1971).

It includes an added introduction, the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" (1997) – some 60 pages – and an index to the new material.

[1] A 1993 review by Stuart Hampshire writes that: Rawls's great achievement in international thought was to restore the notion of justice to its proper place at the center of arguments about politics, the place that it had occupied at the very beginning of theorizing in Plato's Republic.

[2]Samuel Freeman (1994) concludes that: The political conception provides a public justification of liberal institutions that is "freestanding," hence based in fundamental ideals democratic citizens share in common, and independent of the comprehensive views that form an overlapping consensus.

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