John Rawls

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Taken together, the articles collected in this volume offer readers a reliable, illuminating, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the political philosophy of John Rawls and the most significant of the scholarly debates it has generated and is likely to generate in coming years. Thoughtfully selected and introduced by David Reidy, they establish the structure, depth, fecundity and appeal, as well as the potentially significant defects, of Rawls' thought. The volume represents an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of Rawls or contemporary political philosophy. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I: THEORIZING JUSTICE 1 Institutions and the Demands of Justice 2 The Claims of Reflective Equilibrium 3 Constructing Justice for Existing Practice: Rawls and the Status Quo 4 Justice, Desert, and Ideal Theory 5 Rawls, Hegel, and Communitarianism PART II: WHAT JUSTICE DEMANDS 6 Equality of What: Welfare, Resources, or Capabilities? 7 Rawls's Defense of the Priority of Liberty: A Kantian Reconstruction 8 Equal Liberty for All? 9 Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality 10 The Revisionist Difference Principle 11 Just Savings and the Difference Principle 12 What is Egalitarianism? 13 Justice and Gender: An Unfinished Debate PART III: A POLITICAL LIBERALISM 14 A More Democratic Liberalism 15 Disagreements about Justice 16 The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism 17 What is Reasonableness? 18 Religious Citizens within the Limits of Public Reason 19 The Completeness of Public Reason PART IV: A LIBERAL FOREIGN POLICY 20 Critical Notice 21 The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights and Distributive Justice Name Index