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Title: Collected Papers by John Rawls, Samuel Freeman ISBN: 0-674-00569-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Summary: Engaging look at Rawls' lifework
Comment: Rawls' doctoral dissertation, completed at Harvard in 1951, sketched a procedure for adjudicating certain political and moral conflicts. Twenty years later he parlayed this procedure into his famous elaboration of social contract theory, his conception of "justice as fairness." This idea marks the heart of Rawls' _A Theory of Justice_, the most important and influential work of political philosophy of the twentieth century. His central thesis, that a conception of justice as fairness would be accepted by all members of liberal constitutional democracies, motivated Rawls' justly-celebrated philosophical defense of democratic liberalism. In _Political Liberalism_ (1993), Rawls deepened his philosophical analysis by articulating an even broader principle, that of "public reason," which he believes is the shared basis for justifying (among other things) liberty of conscience, freedom of thought, and toleration of difference within liberal societies. Most recently, in _The Law of Peoples_ (1999), Rawls has stretched the social contract yet further by defending an even more general philosophical principle, that of the "just law of peoples." Just as the liberal principles of justice of fairness and public reason allowed him to develop complex theories about political relations within liberal democracies, Rawls believes that, because it would be acceptable to both constitutional liberals and members of certain illiberal societies, this new principle forms the basis of a social contract more inclusive than those of his earlier treatises. Rawls' vision of a realizable near-utopia emerges through his beautiful theoretical elaborations of a social contract theory that takes his principles--as well as the existence of a world burdened with outlaw states, crushing poverty, and problematical absolutism--utterly seriously.
Rawls' _Collected Papers_ brings together nearly all of his major and minor shorter publications on these and related issues. Many essays explore in greater depth issues raised by critics of _A Theory of Justice_ and _Political Liberalism_, and all of them together paint a fascinating portrait of Rawls' philosophical development between 1951 and the present.
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Title: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls, Erin Kelly ISBN: 0674005112 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Rawls by Samuel Freeman ISBN: 0521657067 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: A Theory of Justice by John Rawls ISBN: 0674000781 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy by John Rawls, Barbara Herman ISBN: 0674004426 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Political Liberalism by John Rawls ISBN: 0231052499 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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