| Description |
xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Fundamental ideas: 1. Four roles of political philosophy -- 2. Society as a fair system of cooperation -- 3. The Idea of a well-ordered society -- 4. The Idea of the basic structure -- 5. Limits to our inquiry -- 6. The Idea of the original position -- 7. The Idea of free and equal persons -- 8. Relations between the fundamental ideas -- 9. The Idea of public justification -- 10. The Idea of reflective equilibrium -- 11. The Idea of an overlapping consensus -- Part II. Principles of justice -- 12. Three basic points -- 13. The Principles of justice -- 14. The Problem of distributive justice -- 15. The Basic structure as subject: first kind of reason -- 16. The Basic structure as subject: second kind of reason -- 17. Who are the least advantaged? -- 18. The Difference principle: its meaning -- 19. Objections via counterexamples -- 20. Legitimate expections, entitlement, and desert -- 21. On viewing native endowments as a common asset -- 22. Summary comments on distributive justice and desert -- Part III. The Argument from the original position -- 23. The Original position: the set-up -- 24. The Circumstances of justice -- 25. Formal constraints and the veil of ignorance -- 26. The Idea of public reason -- 27. First fundamental comparison -- 28. The Structure of the argument and the maximin rule -- 29. The Argument stressing the third condition -- 30. The Priority of the basic liberties -- 31. An objection about aversion to uncertainty -- 32. The Equal basic liberties revisited -- 33. The Argument stressinf the second condition -- 34. Second fundamental comparison: introduction -- 35. Grounds falling under publicity -- 36. Grounds falling under reciprocity -- 37. Grounds falling under stability -- 38. Grounds against the principle of restricted utility -- 39. Comments on equality -- 40. Concluding remarks -- Part IV Institutions of a just basic structure -- 41. Propert-owning democracy: introductory remarks -- 42. Some basic contrasts between regimes -- 43. Ideas of the good in justice as fairness -- 44. Constitutional versus procedural democracy -- 45. The Fair value of the equal political liberties -- 46. Denial of the fair value for other basic liberties -- 47. Political and comprehensive liberalism: a contrast -- 48. A Note on head taxes and the priority of liberty -- 49. Economic institutions of a property-owning democracy -- 50. The Family as a basic institution -- 51. The Flexibility of an index of primary goods -- 52. Addressing Marx's critique of liberalism -- 53. Brief comments on leisure time -- Part IV. The Question of stability -- 54. The Domain of the political -- 55. The Question of stability -- 56. Is justice as fairness political in the wrong way? -- 57. How is political liberalism possible? -- 58. An Overlapping consensus not Utopian -- 59. A Reasonable moral strategy -- 60. The Good of political society |
| Summary |
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain |
| Analysis |
Justice |
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Political ideologies |
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State and the individual |
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Public goods |
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Civil liberties |
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Social justice |
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Overseas item |
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Utilitarianism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Liberalism.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Justice.
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Fairness.
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| Author |
Kelly, Erin.
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| LC no. |
00065034 |
| ISBN |
0674005112 paperback |
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0674005104 : |
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