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Justice as fairness : a restatement

By:

Rawls, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Universal Law publishing New Delhi 2004Description: xviii,214p 25 cm ; Hard boundISBN:

978-8175344016

Subject(s):

Justice, Fairness State and the individual

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	GSB Collection	320.011 RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B1591

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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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