Reflections On Rawls

Author : Shaun P. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317069584

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Reflections on Rawls by Shaun P. Young Pdf

The late John Rawls was one of the most inspiring, provocative and influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection a panel of distinguished political philosophers critically explore the intellectual legacy of Rawls. The essays herein engage Rawls's political theorizing from his earliest published writings in the 1950s to his final publication in 2001, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement and explore a diversity of issues related to his arguments, such as the attractiveness of his methodology/methodologies, and the normative coherence and empirical validity of his claims. In turn, the effectiveness both of his arguments and those of various supporters and critics are evaluated from the perspective of a variety of analytical approaches, including cosmopolitanism, communitarianism, perfectionism, liberalism, and legal theory. This book is an edifying and engaging dialogue with ideas and arguments that have provided the theoretical framework for much of contemporary political philosophy, and a thoughtful assessment of their continuing significance and place within the pantheon of political philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 883293552X

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The Persistence of Justice as Fairness. Reflections on Rawls's Legacy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Voice
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812696806

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Rawls Explained by Paul Voice Pdf

In this context Rawls challenges us to see the world through the lens of fairness. Injustice can only be effectively challenged if we can articulate, to ourselves and to others, both why a situation is unjust and how we might move towards justice. Political philosophy at its best offers both an answer to the why of injustice and the how of political and economic change. --

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674005104

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Justice as Fairness by John Rawls Pdf

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works." He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042605

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A Theory of Justice by John RAWLS Pdf

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042568

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Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls Pdf

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674266568

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The Law of Peoples by John Rawls Pdf

This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. “The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an “outlaw society” and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls’s most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls’s own “Justice as Fairness,” presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674005422

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The Law of Peoples by John Rawls Pdf

This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited and The Law of Peoples. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.

Author : Chosein Yamahata,Donald M. Seekins,Makiko Takeda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811596162

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Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume I by Chosein Yamahata,Donald M. Seekins,Makiko Takeda Pdf

“This book focuses on the different challenges and opportunities for social transformation in India, Myanmar and Thailand, by centering communities and individuals as the main drivers of change. In doing so, it includes discussions on a wide array of issues including women’s empowerment and political participation, ethno-religious tensions, plurilingualism, education reform, community-based healthcare, climate change, disaster management, ecological systems, and vulnerability reduction. Two core foundations are introduced for ensuring broader transformations. The first is the academic diplomacy project – a framework for an engaged academic enquiry focusing on causative, curative, transformative, and promotive factors. The second is a community driven collective struggle that serves as a grassroots possibility to facilitate positive social transformation by using locally available resources and enabling the participation of the resident population. As a whole, the book conveys the importance of a diversification of engagement at the grassroots level to strengthen the capacity of individuals as decisive stakeholders, where the process of social transformation makes communities more interconnected, interdependent, multicultural and vital in building an inclusive society.”

Author : Ruth Abbey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271069883

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Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls by Ruth Abbey Pdf

In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that follow testify to the continuing ambivalence among feminist readers of Rawls. From the perspectives of political theory and moral, social, and political philosophy, the contributors address particular aspects of Rawls’s work and apply it to a variety of worldly practices relating to gender inequality and the family, to the construction of disability, to justice in everyday relationships, and to human rights on an international level. The overall effect is to give a sense of the broad spectrum of possible feminist critical responses to Rawls, ranging from rejection to adoption. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Amy R. Baehr, Eileen Hunt Botting, Elizabeth Brake, Clare Chambers, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Anthony Simon Laden, Janice Richardson, and Lisa H. Schwartzman.

Author : Jon Mandle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139483056

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Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice' by Jon Mandle Pdf

A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely regarded as the most important twentieth-century work of Anglo-American political philosophy. It transformed the field by offering a compelling alternative to the dominant utilitarian conception of social justice. The argument for this alternative is, however, complicated and often confusing. In this book Jon Mandle carefully reconstructs Rawls's argument, showing that the most common interpretations of it are often mistaken. For example, Rawls does not endorse welfare-state capitalism, and he is not a 'luck egalitarian' as is widely believed. Mandle also explores the relationship between A Theory of Justice and the developments in Rawls's later work, Political Liberalism, as well as discussing some of the most influential criticisms in the secondary literature. His book will be an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to engage with this ground-breaking philosophical work.

Author : Christoph Menke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804744742

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Reflections of Equality by Christoph Menke Pdf

The book argues that the center of political modernity is determined by a conflictive relation between the liberal core concept of political equality and the idea of individuality.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527538

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Political Liberalism by John Rawls Pdf

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

Author : Thomas Pogge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198031208

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John Rawls by Thomas Pogge Pdf

John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introduction (originally published in German) gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls's theory, introduces biographical information when necessary, and draws links between the Rawlsian enterprise and other important positions in moral and political philosophy.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Justice
ISBN : 0415229995

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John Rawls: Political liberalism and the law of peoples by John Rawls Pdf