TY - BOOK AU - Rawls,John TI - Political liberalism T2 - Columbia classics in philosophy SN - 9780231130882 AV - JC578.R261.P655 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Political stability N1 - Part one: Political liberalism - Basic elements; Part two: Political liberalism - Three main ideas; Part Three: Institutional framework; Part four: The idea of public reason revisited; 1 and indexes; Lecture I. Fundamental ideas --; Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representation --; Lecture III. Political constructivism; 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; Lecture Virgin IslandsI. The basic structure as subject --; Lecture Virgin IslandsII. The basic liberties and their priority --; Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas; The idea of public reason revisited (1997); 2 N2 - 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 ER -