Justice as fairness : a restatement / John Rawls ; edited by Erin Kelly.

By: Rawls, John, author, 1921-2002
Contributor(s): Kelly, Erin
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, .2001Description: xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674005104 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674005112 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780674005112Subject(s): Justice | FairnessDDC classification: 320.011 LOC classification: JC578 | .R3693 2001
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. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.
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Nominated for Pulitzer Prizes 2002

Nominated for Frederic W. Ness Book Award 2003

Nominated for Rachel Carson Prize & Ludwik Fleck Prize 2002

Nominated for Littleton-Griswold Prize 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.

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