Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, and the Process of Liberal Political Justification

[...]the most important function of metaphysics is to help us in any way possible to enlighten ourselves and to encourage us in our agonizing stmggles in politics.1 The second is the claim that a political liberal is one who knows that he or she is not God.2 This explication will borrow widely from the thought of the greatest political liberal, John Rawls, and another great liberal thinker, Alfred North Whitehead. [...]not to do so would be to fail to do one's duty as a just ruler in that their very success as miers was measured in terms of the degree to which they could lead the populace toward an approximation of the good. [...]political liberals concentrate in politics on justice or fairness in contrast to the good or the truth of any metaphysical doctrine, whether religious or nonreligious. Metaphysics is transcendental in the sense that it studies what is the case in every experience of the real, rather than concerning itself with what is outside of or beyond experience. [...]it makes sense