On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls

Berdica, Josip

doi:10.21464/fi45407

Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 45 No. 4, 2025.

Original scientific paper

On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls

Josip Berdica orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-0326 ; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Pravni fakultet Osijek, Stjepana Radića 13, HR–31000 Osijek

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APA 6th Edition

Berdica, J. (2025). On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls. Filozofska istraživanja, 45 (4), 709-709. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407

MLA 8th Edition

Berdica, Josip. "On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls." Filozofska istraživanja, vol. 45, no. 4, 2025, pp. 709-709. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

Chicago 17th Edition

Berdica, Josip. "On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls." Filozofska istraživanja 45, no. 4 (2025): 709-709. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407

Harvard

Berdica, J. (2025). 'On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls', Filozofska istraživanja, 45(4), pp. 709-709. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407

Vancouver

Berdica J. On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls. Filozofska istraživanja [Internet]. 2025 [cited 2026 July 21];45(4):709-709. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407

IEEE

J. Berdica, "On the Religious Temperament of the “Early” Rawls", Filozofska istraživanja, vol.45, no. 4, pp. 709-709, 2025. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi45407

Abstract

It is a little-known fact that religion and religious beliefs are at the beginning of the political philosophy of John B. Rawls. We are talking about “early” Rawls, marked by strong religious convictions that exerted a hidden but still significant influence on his (later) thought and overall work. These convictions also found their place in his determination of the goal of political philosophy as he sees it: to defend a reasonable faith within the framework of a just constitutional democracy. Rawls points out that if a reasonable just society cannot exist for some reason, we have the right to ask whether it makes sense to live in society at all. These and similar reflections express his aspiration for a comprehensive view of the world, which is an integral part of what is meant by Rawls’s religious temperament. It is about the so-called “background identities” that played an important role in Rawls’s preservation of religion within the framework of his political liberalism. Therefore, the idea of this paper is to show what kind of temperament it is in order to get a more complete picture of his political philosophy.