ABSTRACT
Penelitian ini merupakan telaah kritis terhadap teori politik John Rawls danJürgen Habermas dalam menghadapi persoalan fakta pluralisme, utamanyamengenai asas neralitas sebagai fondasi politik demokrasi liberal. Rawlsmengembangkan konsepsi politik tentang keadilan melalui gagasan konsensusyang saling bertumpang-tindih, sementara Habermas mengelaborasi gagasantentang validitas dan legitimasi politik di atas tindakan komunikatif. Penelitian iniberusaha menunjukkan bahwa politik demokrasi adalah ruang serba mungkinyang tidak dapat dipagari oleh eksklusi atau inklusi terhadap kategori tertentu.Melalui perspektif teori diskurus Habermas, penelitian ini berusaha mengupasdefisit dalam konstruksi teori politik prosedural Rawls tentang perumusan asasasaskeadilan politik. Sasarannya adalah mencapai suatu pemahaman tentangkeadilan politik yang tidak beku dan senantiasa terbuka terhadap segala rupakemungkinan baru.

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ABSTRACT
This undergraduate thesis is a critical analysis of the political theory of JohnRawls and Jürgen Habermas in terms of addressing the pluralism, particularlyregarding the principle of neutrality as the foundation of liberal democraticpolitics. Rawls developed a political conception of justice through the idea ofoverlapping consensus, while Habermas elaborated the notion of political validityand legitimacy above the communicative action. This critical analysis aims toprove that democracy is a room with unlimited probability, which is most unlikelyto be restricted with neither exclusivity nor inclusivity towards particular groups.Through the perspective of Habermas’ discourse theory, this analysis seeks tounravel the deficit in the construction of Rawls’ political theory of the principlesof political justice. The objective is to achieve an understanding of political justicethat is not frigid and open to all sorts of new possibility.