This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his ...

This work consists of two parts: "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"p̧ublished in 1997a̧nd "The Law of Peoples"a̧ reworking of an article published in 1993. Taken ...

The question, 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in ...

"Although many of those who are powerful may want to make the conditions of life a little less painful for others, they do not believe that there is a cure for modern social ...

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over ...

Discusses the nature of equality and looks at examples related to medical care, employment, political rights and religion

In Rigging the Game--a brief, accessible introduction to the study of inequality in American society--Michael Schwalbe investigates how inequality is both created and ...

A comprehensive and detailed explanation of the equal opportunity principle that influences social policy today is provided in this book. Dennis E Mithaug addresses the ...

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not ...