Political Liberalism / John Rawls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawls, John.

Series:

Columbia Classics in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Liberalism.

Political stability.

Local Subjects:

Justice.

Liberalism.

Political stability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 p.)

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2005].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a ""well-ordered society,"" one that is stable and relatively homogeneous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines-religious, philosophical, and moral-coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Reco

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Part 1: Political Liberalism: Basic Elements; Lecture I: Fundamental Ideas; 1. Addressing Two Fundamental Questions; 2. The Idea of a Political Conception of Justice; 3. The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation; 4. The Idea of a Original Position; 5. The Political Conception of the Person; 6. The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society; 7. Neither a Community nor an Association; 8. On the use of Abstract Conceptions; Lecture II: Powers of Citizens and Their Representation; 1. The Reasonable and the Rational

2. The Burdens of Judgement3. Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines; 4. The Publicity Condition: Its Three Levels; 5. Rational Autonomy: Artificial not Political; 6. Full Autonomy: Political not Ethical; 7. The Basis of Moral Motivation in the Person; 8. Moral Psychology: Philosophical not Psychological; Lecture III: Political Constructivism; 1. The Idea of a Constructivist Conception; 2. Kant's Moral Constructivism; 3. Justice as a Contructivist View; 4. Role of Conceptions of Society and Person; 5. Three Conceptions of Objectivity; 6. Objectivity Independent of the Casual View of Knowledge

7. When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking?8. The Scope of Political Constructivism; Part 2: Political Liberalism: Three Main Ideas; Lecture IV: The Idea of Overlapping Consensus; 1. How Is Political Liberalism Possible?; 2. The Question of Stability; 3. Three Features of an Overlapping Consensus; 4. An Overlapping Consensus not Indifferent or Skeptical; 5. A Political Conception Need not be Comprehensive; 6. Steps to Constitutional Consensus; 7. Steps to Overlapping Consensus; 8. conception and Doctrines: How Related?; Lecture V: The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good

1. How Political Conception Limits Conceptions of the Good2. Goodness as Rationality; 3. Primary Goods and Interpersonal Comparisons; 4. Primary Goods as Citizens' Needs; 5. Permissible Conceptions of the Good and Political Virtues; 6. Is Justice as Fairness Fair to Conceptions of the Good?; 7. The Good of Political Society; 8. That Justice as Fairness is Complete; Lecture VI: The Idea of Public Reason; 1. The Questions and Forums of Public Reason; 2. Public Reason and the Ideal of Democratic Citizenship; 3. Nonpublic Reasons; 4. The Content of Public Reason

5. The Idea of Constitutional Essentials6. The Supreme Court as Exemplar of Public Reason; 7. Apparent Difficulties with Public Reason; 8. The Limits of Public Reason; Part 3: Institutional Framework; Lecture VII: The Basic Structure as Subject1; 1. First Subject of Justice; 2. Unity by Appropriate Sequence; 3. Libertarianism Has No Special Role for the Basic Structure; 4. The Importance of Background Justice; 5. How the Basic Structure Affects Individuals; 6. Initial Agreement as Hypothetical and Nonhistorical; 7. Special Features of the Initial Agreement

8. The Social Nature of Human Relationships

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613008244

9781283008242

1283008246

9780231527538

0231527535

OCLC:

826476409