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From th introduction by the authorBriefly, I propose to read A Theory of Justice not as a single piece of philosophical argument to be tested and accepted whole, but as a complex, many-layered record of at least twenty years of philosophical growth and development. I shall argue that Rawls began with a simple, coherent, comprehensible problem and a brilliant idea for its solution [...] The labyrinthic complexities of A Theory of Justice are the consequences of at least three stages in the development of Rawls“thought, in each of which he complicated his theory to meet objections others had raised to earlier versions, or which he himself perceived.ContentsPART INTRODUCTION1. Introductory remarks2. The problem3. The keyPART THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY4. The first form of the model5. A critique of the first form of the model6. The second form of the model7. A critique of the second form of the model8. The third form of the model9. The priority of liberty and other complicationsPART RAWLS AND KANT10. Kant and Rawls11. The Kantian background12. The Kantian interpretation of the original positionPART A CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY13. The general facts about human society14. Primary goods and life-plans15. A formal analysis of the bargaining game16. The logical status of Rawls“s argumentPART IS RAWLS RIGHT?17. The abstractness of Rawls“s TheoryBibliographyIndex
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