Political liberalism /

"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...

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Main Author: Rawls, John, 1921-2002
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Edition:Expanded ed.
Series:Columbia classics in philosophy.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: BASIC ELEMENTS: Lecture I. Fundamental ideas
  • Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representation
  • Lecture III. Political constructivism
  • PART TWO: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: THREE MAIN IDEAS: Lecture IV. The idea of an overlapping consensus
  • Lecture V. Priority of right and ideas of the good
  • Lecture VI. The idea of public reason
  • PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: Lecture VII. The basic structure as subject
  • Lecture VIII. The basic liberties and their priority
  • Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas
  • PART FOUR: THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON REVISITED: The idea of public reason revisited (1997).