John Rawls : his life and theory of justice / by Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko

Table of Contents: “…Biography -- The focus on the basic structure -- A top-tier criterion of justice -- The basic idea: justice as fairness -- The first principle of justice -- The second principle of justice -- A Rawlsian society -- On justification -- The reception of justice as fairness.…”

The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / by Campe, Rüdiger

Table of Contents: “…Theology and the law : dice in the air -- Numbers and calculation in context : the game of decision / Pascal -- Writing the calculation of chances : justice and fair game / Christiaan Huygens -- Probability, a postscript to theory of chances : logic and contractual law / Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf -- Probability applied : ancient topoi and the theory of games of chance / Jacob Bernoulli -- Continued proclamations : the law of logica probabilium / Leibniz -- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or the improbability of survival -- Numbers and tables in narration : jurists and clergymen and their bureaucratic hobbies -- Novels and tables : Defoe's A journal of the plague year; Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg -- The theory of probability and the form of the novel : Daniel Bernoulli on utility value, the anthropology of risk, and Gellert's epistolary fiction -- 'Improbable probability' : the theory of the novel and its trope; Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon -- The appearance of truth : logic, aesthetics, and experimentation / Lambert -- 'Probable' or 'plausible' : mathematical formula versus philosophical discourse / Kant -- Kleist's Improbable Veracities, or, a romantic ending.…”