Justice as Fairness
John Rawls · 1958
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About the book
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
First sentence: 1.1 We begin by distinguishing four roles that political philosophy may have as part of a society's public political culture.
Book details
- Year
- 1958
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 214
- ISBN
- 9780674005105
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