John Rawls

by Reidy, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780754627135
• ISBN10: 0754627136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Taken together, the articles collected in this volume offer readers a reliable, illuminating, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the political philosophy of John Rawls and the most significant of the scholarly debates it has generated and is likely to generate in coming years. Thoughtfully selected and introduced by David Reidy, they establish the structure, depth, fecundity and appeal, as well as the potentially significant defects, of Rawls' thought. The volume represents an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of Rawls or contemporary political philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theorizing Justice

Institutions and the demands of justice

The claims of reflective equilibrium

Constructing justice for existing practice

Rawls and the status quo

Justice, desert and ideal theory

Rawls, Hegel and communitarianism

What Justice Demands

Equality of what: welfare, resources or capabilities?

Rawls's defense of the priority of liberty: a Kantian reconstruction

Equal liberty for all?

Liberal individualism and liberal neutrality

The revisionist difference principle

Just savings and the difference principle

What is egalitarianism?

Justice and gender: an unfinished debate

A Political liberalism

A more democratic liberalism

Disagreements about justice

The moral basis of political liberalism

What is reasonableness?

Religious citizens within the limits of public reason

The completeness of public reason

A Liberal Foreign Policy

Critical notice

John Rawls, The Law of Peoples

With the 'Idea of Public Reason' Revisited

The Law of Peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributive justice

Name index

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