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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist

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Paperback, 222 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2018
ISBN13: 9781316625774
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This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, who was perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Rawls's 1971 treatise, A Theory of Justice, stimulated an outpouring of commentary on 'justice-as-fairness,' his conception of justice for an ideal, self-contained, modern political society. Most of that commentary took Rawls to be defending welfare-state capitalism as found in Western Europe and the United States. Far less attention has been given to Rawls's 2001 book, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. In the Restatement, Rawls not only substantially reformulates the 'original position' argument for the two principles of justice-as-fairness but also repudiates capitalist regimes as possible embodiments. Edmundson further develops Rawls's non-ideal theory, which guides us when we find ourselves in a society that falls well short of justice.

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ISBN13:9781316625774
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:222

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Conceptions of property in the original position; 2. Property-owning democracy versus liberal socialism; 3. Fair value and the fact of domination; 4. The four-stage sequence; 5. The circumstances of politics; 6. Rescuing the difference principle; 7. The special psychologies; 8. Socialism and stability; 9. The common content; 10. The property question; 11. Religion and reticence; 12. Non-ideal theory: the transition to socialism; Bibliography; Index.

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