The Two Principles and Their Justification (Philosophy of Rawls, Volume 2)

ISBN 10: 0815329261 ISBN 13: 9780815329268

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

John Rawls is the pre-eminent political philosopher of our time. His 1971 masterpiece, A Theory of Justice, permanently changed the landscape of moral and political theory, revitalizing the normative study of social issues and taking stands about justice, ethics, rationality, and philosophical method that continue to draw followers and critics today. His Political Liberalism (rev. ed., 1996) squarely faced the fundamental challenges posed by cultural, religious, and philosophical pluralism. It should be no surprise, then, that turn-of-the-century searches of the periodical indices in philosophy, economics, law, the humanities, and related fields turn up almost three thousand articles devoted to a critical discussion of Rawls's theory. In these Volumes we reprint a wide-ranging selection of the most influential and insightful articles on Rawls.

The articles in the present volume reflect the critical discussion of the two principles of justice as fairness - Rawls's theory - and his most general ideas about their justification, namely Kantian constructivism and reflective equilibrium.

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About the Author

Paul Weithman University of Notre Dame, Henry S. Richardson Georgetown University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815329261
• ISBN 13: 9780815329268
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Richardson Henry, Weithman Paul