A ‘Religious’ Reading of Rawls’s Works Paul Weithman’s Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith

In my contribution I will recall some points of Weithman’s argument on the relationship between political liberalism and religious reasons in Rawls, according to the main line of Weithman’s book here discussed. This is for me a precious opportunity to subscribe to some conclusions Weithman offers to the debate, especially the one according to which Rawls shows a sensitivity for religion all along his works, even in Political Liberalism, ungenerously pointed out as the least philosophical one. My overall impression is that in this book under discussion, and partly in the previous one on Rawls’s political turn (Weithman 2010), Weithman offers the most complete intellectual portrait of an author – John Rawls – read and criticized, but probably not read enough and still criticized, often prejudicially.