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Reconstructing Rawls : the Kantian foundations of justice as fairness / Robert S. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Robert S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Political and social views.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Rawls, John, 1921-2002.
- Rawls, John.
- Justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 336 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Compares the theories of John Rawls and Emmanuel Kant, and offers an internal critique and reconstruction of justice as fairness, reconceiving it as a comprehensive, universalistic Kantian liberalism"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rawls's Kantianism
- The Kantian conception of the person
- The priorities of right and political liberty
- The priority of civil liberty
- The priority of fair equality of opportunity
- The difference principle
- Justifying the Kantian conception of the person
- The poverty of political liberalism
- Conclusion: justice as fairness as a universalistic Kantian liberalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271056715
- 0271056711
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