Political liberalism

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Political liberalism

John Rawls

(The John Dewey essays in philosophy, no. 4)

Columbia University Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Paperback ed., with additions to the previous 1993 hardcover e

"Introduction to the paperback edition": p. [xxxvii]-lxii

"Reply to Habermas": p. [372]-434. First appeared in "The Journal of Philosophy" 92:3 (March 1995)

Includes index

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Description

This monograph questions how a stable society can continue to exist when deeply divided by incompatible religious and moral beliefs. The author's solution is to change the very conception of society, from one united by moral beliefs to one united in its political conception of justice.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Political liberalism - basic elements: fundamental ideas
  • the powers of citizens and their representation
  • political constructivism. Part 2 Political liberalism - three main ideas: the idea of an overlapping consensus
  • priority of right and ideas of the good
  • the idea of public reason. Part 3 Institutional framework: the basic structure as subject
  • the basic liberties and their priority.

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