Justice as fairness : a restatement

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Universal Law publishing New Delhi 2004Description: xviii,214p 25 cm ; Hard boundISBN:
  • 978-8175344016
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.011 RAW
Contents:
Principles of Justice -- The Argument from the Original Position -- Institutions of a Just Basic Structure -- The Question of Stability.
Summary: This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism
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Principles of Justice --
The Argument from the Original Position --
Institutions of a Just Basic Structure --
The Question of Stability.


This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism

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