ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of the main elements of political liberalism and its idea of public reason. It explains how a form of shared political autonomy might be realized in pluralist societies via a shared policy to decide fundamental political questions by means of public reasons. The book explores the relation between public reasoning and ideal theorizing. It looks at the subject of reasonable political conceptions of justice: the basic structure of society. Construing the basic structure in this way enables policies supported by public reasons to secure the free and equal status of women qua citizens throughout society. The book also explores the implications of the idea of public reason for the education of future citizens. All students must be taught how to become politically autonomous citizens upon adulthood.
