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Political liberalism / John Rawls. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia classics in philosophyPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2005.Edition: Expandedition. editionDescription: lx, 525 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231130882
  • 9780231130899
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC578.R261.P655 2005
  • JC578
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Contents:
Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representation -- Lecture III. Political constructivism
Lecture V. Priority of right and ideas of the good -- Lecture Virgin Islands The idea of public reason
Lecture Virgin IslandsII. The basic liberties and their priority -- Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas
Subject: This book continues and revises the ideas of justice and fairness that John Rawls presented in "A theory of justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. ... Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines. His answer is based on a reconceiving of a well-ordered society.
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Part one: Political liberalism - Basic elements

Lecture I. Fundamental ideas -- Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representation -- Lecture III. Political constructivism

Part two: Political liberalism - Three main ideas

Lecture IV. The idea of an overlapping consensus -- Lecture V. Priority of right and ideas of the good -- Lecture Virgin Islands The idea of public reason

Part Three: Institutional framework

Lecture Virgin IslandsI. The basic structure as subject -- Lecture Virgin IslandsII. The basic liberties and their priority -- Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas

Part four: The idea of public reason revisited

The idea of public reason revisited (1997).

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice and fairness that John Rawls presented in "A theory of justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. ... Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines. His answer is based on a reconceiving of a well-ordered society.

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