Collected Papers

by Rawls, John

• ISBN13: 9780674137394
• ISBN10: 0674137396
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics	1	(19)
Two Concepts of Rules	20	(27)
Justice as Fairness	47	(26)
Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice	73	(23)
The Sense of Justice	96	(21)
Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play	117	(13)
Distributive Justice	130	(24)
Distributive Justice: Some Addenda	154	(22)
The Justification of Civil Disobedience	176	(14)
Justice as Reciprocity	190	(35)
Some Reasons for the Maximin Criterion	225	(7)
Reply to Alexander and Musgrave	232	(22)
A Kantian Conception of Equality	254	(13)
Fairness to Goodness	267	(19)
The Independence of Moral Theory	286	(17)
Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory	303	(56)
Social Unity and Primary Goods	359	(29)
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical	388	(27)
Preface for the French Edition of A Theory of Justice	415	(6)
The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus	421	(28)
The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good	449	(24)
The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus	473	(24)
Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy	497	(32)
The Law of Peoples	529	(36)
Fifty Years after Hiroshima	565	(8)
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited	573	(43)
Commonweal Interview with John Rawls	616	(7)
Credits	623	(6)
Index	629