Rawls's Political Liberalism
Title | Rawls's Political Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Thom Brooks |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0231149719 |
Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawls's prescription for a just society.
Political Liberalism
Title | Political Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | John Rawls |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 588 |
Release | 2005-03-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231527535 |
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 homogenous 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. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. "An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy." —Times Literary Supplement
Why Political Liberalism?
Title | Why Political Liberalism? PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Weithman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2010-12-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199781218 |
In Why Political Liberalism?, Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn". Weithman takes Rawls at his word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked by Rawls's readers, is the threat that the justice of a well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized prisoner's dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of "A Theory of Justice" tried to avert that threat shows that the much-neglected third part of that book is of considerably greater philosophical interest, and has considerably more unity of focus, than is generally appreciated. Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls's attempts to show that a just society would be stable, and just as carefully shows why Rawls came to think those arguments were inconsistent with other parts of his theory. Weithman then shows that the changes Rawls introduced into his view between "Theory of Justice" and "Political Liberalism" result from his attempt to remove the inconsistency and show that the hazard of the generalized prisoner's dilemma can be averted after all. Recovering Rawls's two treatments of stability helps to answer contested questions about the role of the original position and the foundations of justice as fairness. The result is a powerful and unified reading of Rawls's work that explains his political turn and shows his enduring engagement with some of the deepest concerns of human life.
Rawls's Political Liberalism
Title | Rawls's Political Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Thom Brooks |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0231149719 |
Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawls's prescription for a just society.
Why Political Liberalism?
Title | Why Political Liberalism? PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Weithman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190453036 |
In Why Political Liberalism?, Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn". Weithman takes Rawls at his word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked by Rawls's readers, is the threat that the justice of a well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized prisoner's dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of "A Theory of Justice" tried to avert that threat shows that the much-neglected third part of that book is of considerably greater philosophical interest, and has considerably more unity of focus, than is generally appreciated. Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls's attempts to show that a just society would be stable, and just as carefully shows why Rawls came to think those arguments were inconsistent with other parts of his theory. Weithman then shows that the changes Rawls introduced into his view between "Theory of Justice" and "Political Liberalism" result from his attempt to remove the inconsistency and show that the hazard of the generalized prisoner's dilemma can be averted after all. Recovering Rawls's two treatments of stability helps to answer contested questions about the role of the original position and the foundations of justice as fairness. The result is a powerful and unified reading of Rawls's work that explains his political turn and shows his enduring engagement with some of the deepest concerns of human life.
Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith
Title | Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Weithman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2016-08-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107147433 |
This volume brings together ten of Paul Weithman's papers on John Rawls's liberalism and his defense of reasonable political faith.
Rawls and Religion
Title | Rawls and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel A. Dombrowski |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2001-05-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780791450123 |
Employs the political philosophy of John Rawls to address controversies involving politics and religion.