The later Rawls attempts to offer a non-comprehensive, but nonetheless moral justification in political philosophy … on the unwarranted assumption that one cannot offer a moral justification other than by taking a philosophically … comprehensive route. In this article, I internally criticize the justification strategy employed by the later Rawls. I show that he …

of public justification pride of place. This article critically discusses Gaus's characterization and defense of the … ideal of public justification in politics. It also presents an account and an argument in support of first-person political … justification. …

The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon. This paper develops a theoretical framework and … reports laboratory evidence to show how pure justification pressure affects cooperative behavior in economic exchange … decisions to the audience. When it is salient that the audience thinks one should cooperate, justification pressure …

alternative analysis based on justification theory: the pluralism of justification is consubstantial with complex societies, but …

Punishees regularly ask for justification. But is justification also effective? To answer this question under … reasons are kept confidential. In the Private treatment, the addressee is only informed about the justification of the … decay in later periods if the justification is only communicated to the addressee. In the remaining two treatments …