Name: WELLINGTON ALAN SOARES MARQUES
Publication date: 27/02/2026
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALCEU MAURÍCIO JUNIOR | Examinador Interno |
| EVANDRO BARBOSA | Examinador Externo |
| RICARDO CORREA DE ARAUJO | Presidente |
Summary: This dissertation investigates how the political conception of the person in John Rawls provides
the foundation that justifies the primacy of political values over religious, philosophical, or
moral comprehensive values within a well-ordered society. To this end, it examines the evolution
of the conception of the person from A theory of justice (1971), where it is presented as a moral
conception based on the two moral powers, to Political liberalism (1993), where it becomes a
strictly political conception, referring to the citizen of well-ordered society, and independent of
any specific comprehensive doctrine. From this analysis arises a necessary terminological
distinction between public identity (of the citizen), comprehensive moral identity (of non-public
commitments), and total moral identity (their synthesis through an overlapping consensus). The
research demonstrates that by understanding themselves as free in the three senses proposed
by Rawls, independence in relation to a particular conception of the good, self-authentication
of their claims, and responsibility for their ends, citizens internalize and prioritize the political
virtues and values. It concludes that by delimiting the political domain as a sphere of public
justification, Rawls provides a coherent response to the problem of social stability under
conditions of reasonable pluralism, sustaining the possibility of a reflective (and non-coercive)
adherence to the primacy of political values and virtues.
