The Cambridge Companion to RawlsSamuel Richard Freeman Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of new essays, many of the world's leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawls's contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism, and international justice. There are also assessments of Rawls's controversial relationships with feminism, utilitarianism and communitarianism. New readers will find this the most accessible guide to Rawls currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Rawls. |
Contents
John Rawls An Overview | 1 |
Rawls and Liberalism | 62 |
For a Democratic Society | 86 |
Rawls on Justification | 139 |
Rawls on the Relationship between Liberalism and Democracy | 168 |
Difference Principles | 200 |
Democratic Equality Rawlss Complex Egalitarianism | 241 |
Congruence and the Good of Justice | 277 |
Constructivism in Rawls and Kant | 347 |
Public Reason | 368 |
Rawls on Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law | 394 |
Rawls and Utilitarianism | 426 |
Rawls and Communitarianism | 460 |
Rawls and Feminism | 488 |
Bibliography | 521 |
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