http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/1917/matthew-b-wilks Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:33:32 -0400 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:33:32 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/874/theories-of-multicultural-toleration-an-examination-of-justice-as-fairness-and-political-theology By Matthew B. Wilks - The place of multiculturalism in a liberal democracy continues to be a contentious question and one with which the liberal democratic state must constantly grapple. Two differing conceptions of the way the state should conceive of multicultural toleration can be seen in Justice as Fairness by John Rawls and Political Theology by Carl Schmitt. In Justice as Fairness, Rawls details his theory of justice as fairness, a model for a “well-ordered society” and conceives of reasonable pluralism as being a permanent condition of democratic society. Rawls deals with the issue of multicultural... Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:28 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/874/theories-of-multicultural-toleration-an-examination-of-justice-as-fairness-and-political-theology