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| a theory of justice by john rawls: A Theory of Justice John RAWLS, 2009-06-30 Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: A Theory of Justice John Rawls, 2009-07 Previous edition, 1st, published in 1971. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: A Theory of Justice John Rawls, 2005-03-31 John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls’s view, much of the extensive literature on his theory refers to the original. This first edition is available for scholars and serious students of Rawls’s work. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls Thomas Pogge, 2007 This is a short, accessible introduction to John Rawls' thought and gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls' theory as well as drawing links between Rawls' enterprise and other important positions in moral and political philosophy. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls Andrius Gališanka, 2019-05-01 An engaging account of the titan of political philosophy and the development of his most important work, A Theory of Justice, coming at a moment when its ideas are sorely needed. It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide, and he is one of the few philosophers whose work is known in the corridors of power as well as in the halls of academe. Rawls is most famous for the development of his view of “justice as fairness,” articulated most forcefully in his best-known work, A Theory of Justice. In it he develops a liberalism focused on improving the fate of the least advantaged, and attempts to demonstrate that, despite our differences, agreement on basic political institutions is both possible and achievable. Critics have maintained that Rawls’s view is unrealistic and ultimately undemocratic. In this incisive new intellectual biography, Andrius Gališanka argues that in misunderstanding the origins and development of Rawls’s central argument, previous narratives fail to explain the novelty of his philosophical approach and so misunderstand the political vision he made prevalent. Gališanka draws on newly available archives of Rawls’s unpublished essays and personal papers to clarify the justifications Rawls offered for his assumption of basic moral agreement. Gališanka’s intellectual-historical approach reveals a philosopher struggling toward humbler claims than critics allege. To engage with Rawls’s search for agreement is particularly valuable at this political juncture. By providing insight into the origins, aims, and arguments of A Theory of Justice, Gališanka’s John Rawls will allow us to consider the philosopher’s most important and influential work with fresh eyes. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice' Jon Mandle, 2009-10-15 A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a compelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. The argument for this alternative is, however, complicated and often confusing. In this book Jon Mandle carefully reconstructs Rawls's argument, showing that the most common interpretations of it are often mistaken. For example, Rawls does not endorse welfare-state capitalism, and he is not a 'luck egalitarian' as is widely believed. Mandle also explores the relationship between A Theory of Justice and the developments in Rawls's later work, Political Liberalism, as well as discussing some of the most influential criticisms in the secondary literature. His book will be an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to engage with this ground-breaking philosophical work. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Political Liberalism John Rawls, 2005-03-24 This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a well-ordered society, one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay The Idea of Public Reason Revisited, which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy. —Times Literary Supplement |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Theory of Justice Filippo Dionigi, Jeremy Kleidosty, 2017-07-15 Rawls' 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Idea of Justice Amartya Sen, 2011-05-31 Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls Explained Paul Voice, 2011 In this context Rawls challenges us to see the world through the lens of fairness. Injustice can only be effectively challenged if we can articulate, to ourselves and to others, both why a situation is unjust and how we might move towards justice. Political philosophy at its best offers both an answer to the why of injustice and the how of political and economic change. -- |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: In the Shadow of Justice Katrina Forrester, 2021-03-09 In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism--a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state--became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar United States and Britain. In the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Rawls's A Theory of Justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophy. Using archival sources, Forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among American antistatists and British egalitarians. She traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the 1960s and '70s and beyond. In these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right--from the New International Economic Order to the rise of the New Right. These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics. Recasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, In the Shadow of Justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limits.-- |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Law of Peoples John Rawls, 1999 This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited and The Law of Peoples. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Justice as Fairness John Rawls, 2001-05-16 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). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works. He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. Rawls 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. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Otfried Höffe, 2013-07-25 Essential reading for all who are interested in mid-century, western, political philosophy and the philosophy of John Rawls especially his seminal text A Theory of Justice. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Collected Papers John Rawls, 2001-03-02 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. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls and Environmental Justice John Töns, 2021-12-30 Using the principles of John Rawls’ theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future. Rawls described a theory of justice that not only describes the sort of society in which anyone would like to live but that any society can create a society based on just institutions. While philosophers have demonstrated that Rawls’s theory can provide a framework for the discussion of questions of environmental justice, the problem for many philosophical theories is that discussions of sustainable development open the need to address questions of ecological interdependence, historical inequality in past resource use and the recognition that we cannot afford to ignore the limitations of growth. These ideas do not fit in comfortably in standard discourse about theories of justice. In contrast, this book frames the discussion of global justice in terms of environmental sustainability. The author argues that these ideas can be used to develop a coherent political theory that reconciles cosmopolitan arguments and the non-cosmopolitan or nationalist arguments concerning social and environmental justice. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental philosophy and ethics, moral and political philosophy, global studies and sustainable development. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Liberal Theory of Justice Brian Barry, 1973 This text contains a thurough examination of John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice', looking at how this wor has influenced justice and the theor of justice in the modern era. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon Jon Mandle, David A. Reidy, 2014-12-11 John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Reconstructing Rawls Robert S. Taylor, 2015-11-10 Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment—more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls’s so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice’s implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory—a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Reading Rawls Norman Daniels, 1989 First published in 1975, this collection includes many of the best critical responses to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, and the editor has elected to reissue the book without making any substitutions. As he argues in his new preface, the variety of issues raise in the original papers has been a major part of the book's appeal. He also acknowledges that no modest revision of this book could pretend to respond adequately to the considerable elaboration and evolution of Rawls' theory in the last fifteen years. Political philosophy has been one of the most exciting areas of philosophical activity in the years since A Theory of Justice, and much of that activity has been a response to Rawls' work. In his preface, the editor suggests how some of the insights and criticisms contained in the collection have had a bearing on developments in Rawls' theory and in political philosophy more generally, and that fresh reading of each of them reveals additional important points that have not yet received adequate attention. The contributors are: Benjamin Barber, Norman Daniels, Gerald Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin, Joel Feinberg, Milton Fisk, R.M. Hare, H.L.A. Hart, David Lyons, Frank Michelman, Richard Miller, Thomas Nagel, T.M. Scanlon, and A.K. Sen. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls: Reticent Socialist William A. Edmundson, 2017-07-10 The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of 'justice-as-fairness'. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls and Religion Tom Bailey, Valentina Gentile, 2014-12-23 John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabilizing potentials. It has therefore been criticized by defenders of religion for marginalizing and alienating the wealth of religious sensibilities, voices, and demands now present in contemporary liberal societies. In this anthology, established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory to show they in fact offer sophisticated resources for accommodating and responding to religions in liberal political life. The chapters reassert the subtlety, openness, and flexibility of his sense of liberal respect and consensus, revealing their inclusive implications for religious citizens. They also explore the means he proposes for accommodating nonliberal religions in liberal politics, developing his conception of public reason into a novel account of the possibilities for rational engagement between liberal and religious ideas. And they reevaluate Rawls's liberalism from the transcendent perspectives of religions themselves, critically considering its normative and political value, as well as its own religious character. Rawls and Religion makes a unique and important contribution to contemporary debates over liberalism and its response to the proliferation of religions in contemporary political life. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Moral and Political Philosophy Paul Smith, 2008-04-30 A clear and concise introduction to moral and political philosophy which critically analyses arguments about controversial and topical practical issues – drug laws, justifications of punishment, civil disobedience, whether there is a duty to obey the law, and global poverty. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls's Egalitarianism Alexander Kaufman, 2018-06-14 A new analysis of John Rawls's theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Habermas-Rawls Debate James Gordon Finlayson, 2019-05-14 Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read—and misread—one another’s work. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications. He traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates. Finlayson discusses Rawls’s Political Liberalism and Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms, considering them as the essential background to the dispute and using them to lay out their different conceptions of justice, politics, democratic legitimacy, individual rights, and the normative authority of law. He gives a detailed analysis and assessment of their contributions, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their different approaches to political theory, conceptions of democracy, and accounts of religion and public reason, and he reflects on the ongoing significance of the debate. The Habermas-Rawls Debate is an authoritative account of the crucial intersection of two major political theorists and an explication of why their dispute continues to matter. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Justice Or Tyranny? David Lewis Schaefer, 1979 |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Justice as Fairness John Rawls, 2001-05-16 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). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works. He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. Rawls 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. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Efficiency Instead of Justice? Klaus Mathis, 2009-03-18 Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth. In this work, the lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis critically appraises Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. Posner acknowledges the influences of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, whom he views as the founders of normative economics. He subscribes to Smith’s faith in the market as an ideal allocation model, and to Bentham’s ethical consequentialism. Finally, aligning himself with John Rawls’s contract theory, he seeks to legitimize his concept of wealth maximization with a consensus theory approach. In his interdisciplinary study, the author points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law. It provides a method of analysing the law which, while very helpful, is also rather specific. The efficiency arguments therefore need to be incorporated into a process for resolving value conflicts. In a democracy this must take place within the political decision-making process. In this clearly written work, Klaus Mathis succeeds in making even non-economists more aware of the economic aspects of the law. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls' Theory of Social Justice H. Gene Blocker, Elizabeth H. Smith, 1980 |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Responsibility and Distributive Justice Carl Knight, Zofia Stemplowska, 2011-03-03 This volume presents new essays investigating a difficult theoretical and practical problem: how do we find a place for individual responsibility in a theory of distributive justice? Does what we choose affect what we deserve? Would making justice sensitive to responsibility give people what they deserve? Would it advance or hinder equality? |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith John Rawls, 2009-03-31 John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context. The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls’s later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls’s later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: The Liberal Theory of Justice Brian Barry, 1973 This text contains a thurough examination of John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice', looking at how this wor has influenced justice and the theor of justice in the modern era. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Why Political Liberalism? Paul Weithman, 2010-12-22 In Why Political Liberalism?, Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called political turn. Weithman takes Rawls at his word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked by Rawls's readers, is the threat that the justice of a well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized prisoner's dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of A Theory of Justice tried to avert that threat shows that the much-neglected third part of that book is of considerably greater philosophical interest, and has considerably more unity of focus, than is generally appreciated. Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls's attempts to show that a just society would be stable, and just as carefully shows why Rawls came to think those arguments were inconsistent with other parts of his theory. Weithman then shows that the changes Rawls introduced into his view between Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism result from his attempt to remove the inconsistency and show that the hazard of the generalized prisoner's dilemma can be averted after all. Recovering Rawls's two treatments of stability helps to answer contested questions about the role of the original position and the foundations of justice as fairness. The result is a powerful and unified reading of Rawls's work that explains his political turn and shows his enduring engagement with some of the deepest concerns of human life. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Philosophy of Justice Guttorm Fløistad, 2014-09-10 This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the development of Muslim law, Enlightenment perspectives and beyond. Authors discuss important works, including those of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft. Readers are also invited to examine Hegel and the foundation of right, Karl Marx as a utopian socialist and the works of Paul Ricœur, amongst the wealth of perspectives presented in this book. Through these chapters, readers are able to explore the relationship of the state to justice and consider the rights of the individual and the role of law. Contributions presented here discuss concepts including Sharia law, freedom in the community and Libertarian Anarchism. Readers may follow accounts of justice in the Scottish Enlightenment and consider fairness, social justice and the concept of injustice. The surveys presented here show different approaches and a variety of interpretations. Each contribution has its own bibliography. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Justice Is an Option Robert Meister, 2021-04-19 More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out “too big to fail” banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has shaken the foundations of our political order. Meanwhile, financial capitalism seems more entrenched than ever. What is the left to do? Justice Is an Option uses those problems—and the framework of finance that created them—to reimagine historical justice. Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political and economic realities of our era, we need to grapple with them head-on. Meister does just that, asking whether the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world could instead be made to serve justice and equality. Meister here formulates nothing less than a democratic financial theory for the twenty-first century—one that is equally conversant in political philosophy, Marxism, and contemporary politics. Justice Is an Option is a radical, invigorating first page of a new—and sorely needed—leftist playbook. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Free Market Fairness John Tomasi, 2013-05-05 A provocative new vision of free market capitalism that achieves liberal ends by libertarian means Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. In place of the familiar social democratic interpretations of social justice, Tomasi offers a market democratic conception of social justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America's founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed, according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice, American style. Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice—one that will challenge readers on both the left and right. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism Eric Thomas Weber, 2010-09-23 Examines problems in Rawls' epistemology, approached from a Deweyan perspective, to argue for a thoroughly constructivist idea of justice and its practical implications for education. > |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Theories of Justice Alejandra Mancilla, 2017-05-15 Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons. Justice, Rawls famously claimed, is 'the first virtue of social institutions'. Ever since then, moral and political philosophers have expanded, expounded and criticized Rawls's main tenets, from perspectives as diverse as egalitarianism, left and right libertarianism and the ethics of care. This volume of essays provides a general overview of the main strands in contemporary justice theorising and features the most important and influential theories of justice from the 'post Rawlsian' era. These theories range from how to build a theory of justice and how to delineate its proper scope to the relationship between justice and equality, justice and liberty, and justice and desert. Also included is the critique of the Rawlsian paradigm, especially from feminist perspectives and from the growing strand of 'non-ideal' theory, as well as consideration of more recent developments and methodological issues. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement Greg Forster, Anthony B. Bradley, 2014-12-18 This book critiques the Rawlsian concepts of “justice as fairness” and “public reason” from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. The Rawlsian paradigm has become pervasive in multiple disciplines outside political philosophy and is unconsciously embedded in a great deal of Christian public discourse; this calls for a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives. This is the first volume to examine Rawls based on Christian principles drawn from theological ethics, social thought, political theory and practical observation. In addition to theoretical perspectives, the book connects its critique of Rawls to specific hot-topic practical questions in three areas: social issues (abortion, marriage, etc.), economic issues (wealth creation, poverty programs, etc.), and the increasing difficulty of political compromise and peaceful coexistence in the context of the culture war. The book includes some of the leading Christian political theorists in America. |
| a theory of justice by john rawls: Rawls Paul Graham, 2015-11-05 ‘The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance’ – John Rawls, A Theory of Justice What is justice? How can we know it? How can we make our society more just? The most significant political philosopher since John Stuart Mill, John Rawls (1921 – 2002) grappled with such dilemmas. His work has been the source not only of academic argument, but also of political debate and legislative reform, arguing that we have a moral duty to organise society so as to rectify undeserved inequality. In the first introduction to Rawls’s work which encompasses his entire career, Dr Paul Graham combines lucid exposition with thought-provoking criticism. Locating Rawls in the rich history of political thought, Graham explores a theory that remains fiercely relevant as the developed world sees unprecedented levels of inequality. For anyone concerned with how society works, this is a vital introduction to one of the great modern philosophers and to a subject that is crucial to how we live. |
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This book is a revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1971 by Harvard University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rawls, John, 1921– A theory of justice / John Rawls. — Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-00077-3 (cloth : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-674-00078-1 (paper ...
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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. This revised edition clears up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Learn more about A Theory of Justice ».
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Objectives. Explain why Rawls’s theory of justice is first and foremost a procedural theory. Present and explain the two principles of justice. Identify Rawls’s view of the relationship between individual and society, and his objections to rights-based, utilitarian, and communitarian views.
A THEORY OF JUSTICE - Introduction to Philosophy
In this introductory chapter I sketch some of the main ideas of the theory of justice I wish to develop. The exposition is informal and intended to prepare the way for the more detailed arguments that follow. Unavoidably there is some overlap between this and later discussions.
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then present the main idea of justice as fairness, a theory of justice that generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the traditional conception of the social contract.
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John Rawls has to be regarded as a powerful philosophical force of the twentieth century. His major work A Theory of Justice, follows the tradition of Locke, Rousseau, and Kant in that he is exploring the basic constructs of human society.
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A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a com-pelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. The argument for this alternative is, however, complicated and often confusing.
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John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, remains a cornerstone of political philosophy, sparking debates and influencing policy discussions for over half a century. While its core tenets – the original position, the veil of ignorance, and the principles of justice – are well-known, the book’s relevance in our increasingly ...
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the principles of justice as fairness comes as close as a society can to being a voluntary scheme, for it meets the principles which free and equal persons would assent to under circumstances that are fair.
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JOHN RAWLS: A THEORY OF JUSTICE. D. J. BENTLEYt. The object of this piece is to offer a few reflections, and far from rigorous in character, on Professor Rawls' A. Justice. In essence, I shall be saying no more than "this seems. or "important" or (rarely) "unsatisfactory." Rawls is, of philosopher; I am trained as a lawyer, and I can only ask that.
A Theory of Justice - MYISHA CHERRY
A theory of justice depends upon a theory of society in ways that will become evident as we proceed. For the present, it should be observed that the two principles (and this holds for all formulations) are a special case of a more general conception …
NOTION OF 'STATE' IN JOHN RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE
NOTION OF 'STATE' IN JOHN RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE PRAKASH SARANGI John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) has been regarded as a significant contribution to political philosopy. The primary subject of justice according to Rawls is the basic structure of society which exerts a profound influence on individuals' life prospects.
John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’ - PhilArchive
John Rawls (1921-2002) was a Harvard philosopher best known for his A Theory of Justice (1971), which attempted to define a just society. Nearly every contemporary scholarly discussion of justice references A Theory of Justice. This essay reviews its main themes.[3] 1. The ‘Original Position’ and ‘Veil of Ignorance’.
Rawls's Theory of Justice - JSTOR
John Rawls's theory of justice is based on Hume's conception of the circumstances of justice, Kant's conception of the self, and Rousseau's moral psychology. Rawls holds fast to the para- mount liberal ideal of equality of opportunity, and. he agrees with John Stuart Mill that "accidents of birth" are morally arbitrary.
Rawls’ Theory of Justice: An Improvement upon the Utilitarian …
This general theory of ethics and morals establishes a theory of justice based on the principle of maximizing utility. The established moral principles aforementioned are rules of conduct which are intended to protect the good of all human beings, and they are all bound by them.
RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE - JSTOR
part of the explanation lies in the appearance of one commanding work: A Theory of justice, by John Rawls. Since its publication in 197i, Rawls' book has generated an enormous amount of interest, not only among philosophers, but among political scientists, economists, and lawyers as …
Explain and assess Rawls’ theory of justice - oxfordphilsoc.org
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls describes justice as “the first virtue of social institutions”, and as a matter of “fairness”. He sets out his aim for a theory building on the social contract idea, as a viable alternative to classical utilitarian and intuitionist conceptions of justice2.
A Theory of Justice , John Rawls. Cambridge, Massachusetts: …
This essay will first show how the theories of justice of Rawls, Nozick, Ackerman, and Walzer can be understood in terms of these two approaches. Second, it will elaborate the basic problems that confront each perspective
John Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness - Follesdal
There are three main steps in Rawls' theory of justice. He assumes certain features characteristic of free societies, as well as some specific ideas about how society and people
The Theory of Justice - JSTOR
John Rawls's book A Theory of Justice is perhaps the most important work of moral and political philosophy of this century. Rawls has re-newed the social contract tradition in a highly sophisticated and attrac-tive form that makes use of recent work in decision theory and eco-nomics and is not subject to the usual objections to contract theory,
A THEORY OF JUSTICE - WordPress.com
This book is a revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1971 by Harvard University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rawls, John, 1921– A theory of justice / John Rawls. — Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-00077-3 (cloth : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-674-00078-1 (paper ...
A THEORY OF JUSTICE - Harvard University
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. This revised edition clears up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Learn more about A Theory of Justice ».
John Rawls Theory of Justice - Routledge Encyclopedia of …
Objectives. Explain why Rawls’s theory of justice is first and foremost a procedural theory. Present and explain the two principles of justice. Identify Rawls’s view of the relationship between individual and society, and his objections to rights-based, utilitarian, and communitarian views.
A THEORY OF JUSTICE - Introduction to Philosophy
In this introductory chapter I sketch some of the main ideas of the theory of justice I wish to develop. The exposition is informal and intended to prepare the way for the more detailed arguments that follow. Unavoidably there is some overlap between this and later discussions.
Revised Edition - American University
then present the main idea of justice as fairness, a theory of justice that generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the traditional conception of the social contract.
A Theory of Justice - New York University
John Rawls has to be regarded as a powerful philosophical force of the twentieth century. His major work A Theory of Justice, follows the tradition of Locke, Rousseau, and Kant in that he is exploring the basic constructs of human society.
RAWLS’S A THEORY OF JUSTICE - Cambridge University Press
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a com-pelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. The argument for this alternative is, however, complicated and often confusing.
A Theory Of Justice By John Rawls
John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, remains a cornerstone of political philosophy, sparking debates and influencing policy discussions for over half a century. While its core tenets – the original position, the veil of ignorance, and the principles of justice – are well-known, the book’s relevance in our increasingly ...
A THEORY OF JUSTICE - That Marcus Family
the principles of justice as fairness comes as close as a society can to being a voluntary scheme, for it meets the principles which free and equal persons would assent to under circumstances that are fair.
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice - JSTOR
JOHN RAWLS: A THEORY OF JUSTICE. D. J. BENTLEYt. The object of this piece is to offer a few reflections, and far from rigorous in character, on Professor Rawls' A. Justice. In essence, I shall be saying no more than "this seems. or "important" or (rarely) "unsatisfactory." Rawls is, of philosopher; I am trained as a lawyer, and I can only ask that.
A Theory of Justice - MYISHA CHERRY
A theory of justice depends upon a theory of society in ways that will become evident as we proceed. For the present, it should be observed that the two principles (and this holds for all formulations) are a special case of a more general conception …
NOTION OF 'STATE' IN JOHN RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE
NOTION OF 'STATE' IN JOHN RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE PRAKASH SARANGI John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) has been regarded as a significant contribution to political philosopy. The primary subject of justice according to Rawls is the basic structure of society which exerts a profound influence on individuals' life prospects.
John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’ - PhilArchive
John Rawls (1921-2002) was a Harvard philosopher best known for his A Theory of Justice (1971), which attempted to define a just society. Nearly every contemporary scholarly discussion of justice references A Theory of Justice. This essay reviews its main themes.[3] 1. The ‘Original Position’ and ‘Veil of Ignorance’.
Rawls's Theory of Justice - JSTOR
John Rawls's theory of justice is based on Hume's conception of the circumstances of justice, Kant's conception of the self, and Rousseau's moral psychology. Rawls holds fast to the para- mount liberal ideal of equality of opportunity, and. he agrees with John Stuart Mill that "accidents of birth" are morally arbitrary.
Rawls’ Theory of Justice: An Improvement upon the Utilitarian …
This general theory of ethics and morals establishes a theory of justice based on the principle of maximizing utility. The established moral principles aforementioned are rules of conduct which are intended to protect the good of all human beings, and they are all bound by them.
RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE - JSTOR
part of the explanation lies in the appearance of one commanding work: A Theory of justice, by John Rawls. Since its publication in 197i, Rawls' book has generated an enormous amount of interest, not only among philosophers, but among political scientists, economists, and lawyers as …
Explain and assess Rawls’ theory of justice - oxfordphilsoc.org
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls describes justice as “the first virtue of social institutions”, and as a matter of “fairness”. He sets out his aim for a theory building on the social contract idea, as a viable alternative to classical utilitarian and intuitionist conceptions of justice2.
A Theory of Justice , John Rawls. Cambridge, Massachusetts: …
This essay will first show how the theories of justice of Rawls, Nozick, Ackerman, and Walzer can be understood in terms of these two approaches. Second, it will elaborate the basic problems that confront each perspective
John Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness - Follesdal
There are three main steps in Rawls' theory of justice. He assumes certain features characteristic of free societies, as well as some specific ideas about how society and people
The Theory of Justice - JSTOR
John Rawls's book A Theory of Justice is perhaps the most important work of moral and political philosophy of this century. Rawls has re-newed the social contract tradition in a highly sophisticated and attrac-tive form that makes use of recent work in decision theory and eco-nomics and is not subject to the usual objections to contract theory,
