| Description |
xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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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Justice.
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Fairness.
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Social Justice. (DNLM)D012935
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Justice sociale.
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Théorie politique.
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Equité.
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Fairness. (OCoLC)fst00919888
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Justice. (OCoLC)fst00985122
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Rechtvaardigheid.
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Justiça (aspectos políticos)
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| Added Author |
Kelly, Erin.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rawls, John, 1921-2002. Justice as fairness. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001 (OCoLC)1085905830 |
| ISBN |
0674005104 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780674005105 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0674005112 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780674005112 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780674005112 |
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