The aim of this paper is to raise some considerations about the role of the original position and reflective equilibrium procedures in John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness in A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. I want to show that Rawls uses a coherentist-pragmatic model of justification of the principles of justice in a public context, which is nonfoundationalist because of the interconnection between these procedures.
reflective equilibrium; original position; coherentism; nonfoundationalism