Collected papers
by
 
Rawls, John, 1921-2002.

Title
Collected papers

Author
Rawls, John, 1921-2002.

ISBN
9780674005693
 
9780674137394

Personal Author
Rawls, John, 1921-2002.

Uniform Title
Selections. 1999

Publication Information
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Physical Description
xii,656 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents
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.

Abstract
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. But before and after writing his great treatises, Rawls produced a steady stream of essays, some of which 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.

Subject Term
Justice.

Added Author
Freeman, Samuel Richard.


LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberCopy
IIEMSAGeneral Books33168025500352320.011 R261C 19991