(P/B) COLLECTED PAPERS

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

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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