TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rawls,John
AU  - Kelly,Erin
TI  - Justice as fairness: a restatement 
SN  - 9780674005005
AV  - JC578.K29.J878 2001 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Social Justice
KW  - Fairness
N1  - Part I: Fundamental ideas; Part II: Principles of justice; Part III: The argument from the original position; Part IV: Institutions of a just basic structure; Part V. The question of stability; 2; 1. Four roles of political philosophy --; 2. Society as a fair system of cooperation --; 3. The idea of a well-ordered society --; 4. The idea of a basic structure --; 5. Limits to our inquiry --; 6. The idea of the original position --; 7. The idea of free and equal persons --; 8. Relations between the fundamental ideas --; 9. The idea of public justification --; 10. The idea of reflective equilibrium --; 11. The idea of an overlapping consensus; 12. Three basic points --; 13. Two principles of justice --; 14. The problem of distributive justice --; 15. The basic structure as subject: First kind of reason --; 16. The basic structure as subject: Second kind of reason --; 17. Who are the least advantaged --; 18. The difference principle: It's meaning --; 19. Objections via counterexamples --; 20. Legitimate expectations, entitlement, and desert --; 21. On viewing native endowments as a common asset --; 22. Summary comments on distributive justice and desert; 23. The original position: The set-up --; 24. The circumstances of justice --; 25. Formal constraints and the veil of ignorance --; 26. The idea of public reason --; 27. The first fundamental comparison --; 28. The structure of the argument and the maximin rule --; 29. The argument stressing the third condition --; 30. The priority of the basic liberties --; 31. An objection about aversion to uncertainty --; 32. The equal basic liberties revisited --; 33. The argument stressing the third condition --; 34. Second fundamental comparison: Introduction --; 35. Grounds falling under publicity --; 36. Grounds falling under reciprocity --; 37. Grounds falling under stability --; 38. Grounds against the principle of restricted utility --; 39. Comments on equality --; 40. Concluding remarks; 41. Property-owning democracy: Introductory remarks --; 42. Some basic contrasts between regimes --; 43. Ideas of the good in justice of fairness --; 44. Constitutional versus procedural democracy --; 45. The fair value of the equal political liberties --; 46. Denial of the fair value for other liberties --; 47. Political and comprehensive liberalism: a contrast. --; 48. A note on head taxes and the priority of liberty --; 49. Economic institutions of a property-owning democracy --; 50. The family as a basic institution --; 51. The flexibility of an index of primary goods --; 52. Addressing Marx's critique of liberalism --; 53. Brief comments on leisure time; 54. The domain of the political --; 55. The question of stability --; 56. Is justice as fairness political in the wrong way --; 57. How is political liberalism possible --; 58. An overlapping consensus not utopian --; 59. A reasonable moral psychology --; 60. The good of political society; Principles of Justice --; The Argument from the Original Position --; Institutions of a Just Basic Structure --; The Question of Stability; 2
N2  - 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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