Why political liberalism? : on John Rawls's political turn / Paul Weithman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1959- Weithman., author.

Contributor:

Paul J..

Series:

Oxford political philosophy.

Oxford political philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rawls, John, 1921-2002--Criticism and interpretation.

Rawls, John.

Justice.

Liberalism.

Political stability.

Free enterprise.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 379 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work, Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous and compelling interpretation of John Rawls' reasons for taking his so-called 'political turn'.

Contents:

1: Overview

2: The Road to Come

3: A Deeper Understanding of Justice as Fairness?

4: Unity, Theodicy, and the Attractions of Liberalism

5: A Final Word to the Reader

Chapter I: The Public Basis View

I.1: Initial Statement of the Public Basis View

I.2: The Pivotal Argument

I.3: Imputing the Pivotal Argument?

I.4: The Public Basis View Restated

I.5: Difficulties with the Strong Version

I.6: Difficulties with the Weak Version

I.7: Conclusion

Chapter II: Stability and Congruence

II. 1: Stability, Inherent and Imposed

II. 2: Matching the Right and the Good in Justice as Fairness

II. 3: Congruence and Stability

II. 4: Congruence and Inherent Stability

Chapter III: Ideals and Inconsistency

III. 1: An Inconsistency in Justice as Fairness?

III. 2: Ideals and Comprehensive Conceptions

III. 3: Endorsing on the Basis of Shared Ideals

III. 4: Congruence and C[sub(3)]

III. 5: C[sub(3)] and Inconsistency

Chapter IV: The Acquisition of Four Desires

IV. 1: Two Readings of the Aristotelian Principle

IV. 2: The Acquisition of Four Desires

IV. 3: Four Desires and Thin Reasons

Chapter V: Thin Reasons to Be Just

V.1: Setting up the Problem

V.2: The Aristotelian Principle and the Argument for Congruence

V.3: Four Thin Reasons

V.4: Some Questions about the First Three Arguments

V.5: Some Puzzles about the Fourth Argument

Chapter VI: The Argument from Love and Justice

VI. 1: Balances and Temptations

VI. 2: Two Questions about Table II. 3

VI. 3: Conditional Balances and Balance Conditionals

VI. 4: The Argument from Love and Justice

VI. 5: Love8217;s Balance

VI. 6: Four Comments on the Argument

Chapter VII: Kantian Congruence and the Unified Self

VII. 1: An Overview of the Kantian Congruence Argument

VII. 2: The Argument from C[sub(4)]a

VII. 3 From the Ostensible Conclusion to Congruence

VII. 4: Establishing (5.5')

VII. 5: Defending (5.2)

VII. 6: Finality, Rationality, and the Unity of the Self

VII. 7: Kantian Unity

VII. 8: Korsgaard, Unity and the Bridge Function

VII. 9: Is the OP Necessary?

VIII. 10: Conclusion

Chapter VIII: The Great Unraveling

VIII. 1: The Content of Ideals

VIII. 2: Defending C[sub(3)]

VIII. 3: Pluralism and the Failure of Congruence

VIII. 4: The Failure of Kantian Congruence

VIII. 5: The Great Unraveling

VIII. 6: Brief Contrasts with Other Accounts

Chapter IX: The Political Ideals of Justice as Fairness

IX. 1: PL8217;s Basic Argument for Stability

IX. 2: C[sub(3)]' and the Sense of Justice

IX. 3: C[sub(3)]' and the Ideals of Conduct

IX. 4: C[sub(3)]' and the Social Ideals of Justice as Fairness

IX. 5: Whither Congruence?

Chapter X: Comprehensive Reasons to Be Just

X.1: Moving from (9.2) and (9.3) to (9.5)

X.2: Would there Be an Overlapping Consensus?

X.3: Legitimacy and Justification

X.4: Why Political Legitimacy?

X.5: A Question about the Arguments for C[sub(9)] and C[sub(PL)]

X.6: Public Reason, Mutual Assurance, and Pluralism about Justice

X.7: Stability, Reflective Equilibrium, and Public Justification

X.8: Conclusion

Chapter XI: Conclusion

XI. 1: The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism?

XI. 2: A Conception-Based View

XI. 3: Defending Political Liberalism

XI. 4 "And very good it was."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).

ISBN:

0-19-045303-6

0-19-997094-7

1-283-00963-3

9786613009630

0-19-978121-4

OCLC:

704523428