Underlying counterfactual conditionals in Rawls´ "justice as fairness" - How the overlapping consensus becomes functional to the original position
“Justice as fairness is intended as a political conception of justice for a democratic society, it tries to draw solely upon basic intuitive ideas that are embedded in the political institutions of a constitutional democratic regime and the public traditions of their interpretation.” John Rawls. Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical (1985)