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Collected papers

John Rawls ; edited by Samuel Freeman

Harvard University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls's essays is long overdue.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface 1. Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics 2. Two Concepts of Rules 3. Justice as Fairness 4. Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice 5. The Sense of Justice 6. Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play 7. Distributive Justice 8 Distributive Justice: Some Addenda 9. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 10. Justice as Reciprocity 11. Some Reasons for the Maximin Criterion 12. Reply to Alexander and Musgrave 13. A Kantian Conception of Equality 14. Fairness to Goodness 15. The Independence of Moral Theory 16. Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory 17. Social Unity and Primary Goods 18. Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical 19. Preface for the French Edition of A Theory of Justice 20. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus 21. The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good 22. The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus 23. Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy 24. The Law of Peoples 25. Fifty Years after Hiroshima 26. The Idea of Public Reason Revisited 27. Commonweal Interview with John Rawls Credits Index

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  • NCID
    BA53546378
  • ISBN
    • 0674005694
  • LCCN
    98055932
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 656 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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