The Two Principles and Their Justification

Philosophy of Rawls
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8153-2926-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

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John Rawls is the pre-eminent political philosopher of our time. His 1971 masterpiece, A Theory of Justice, permanently changed the landscape of moral and political theory, revitalizing the normative study of social issues and taking stands about justice, ethics, rationality, and philosophical method that continue to draw followers and critics today. His Political Liberalism (rev. ed., 1996) squarely faced the fundamental challenges posed by cultural, religious, and philosophical pluralism. It should be no surprise, then, that turn-of-the-century searches of the periodical indices in philosophy, economics, law, the humanities, and related fields turn up almost three thousand articles devoted to a critical discussion of Rawls's theory. In these Volumes we reprint a wide-ranging selection of the most influential and insightful articles on Rawls.

The articles in the present volume reflect the critical discussion of the two principles of justice as fairness - Rawls's theory - and his most general ideas about their justification, namely Kantian constructivism and reflective equilibrium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Henry

Weithman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, The Two Principles of Justice as Fairness, The First Principle, The Difference Principle, The Priority of Liberty, The Kantian Interpretation, Dewey Lectures and Constructivism, Reflective Equilibrium, Acknowledgements.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Weithman University of Notre Dame, Henry S. Richardson Georgetown University.