In A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism and The Idea of Public Reason Revisited Rawls resorts to three different methodologies of justification: the original position, the reflexive equilibrium and the public reason. The article analyses these three methodologies in Rawls’ work and argues that the justification of the original position is derivative of the reflexive equilibrium, and that public reason likewise presupposes a sort of a broad reflexive equilibrium between comprehensive doctrines and political conceptions.
