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Book SynopsisBeyond Justice as Fairness: Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective by Paul Nnodim explores the three foundational topics in Rawls's theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings. Nnodim takes up the question of how well these ideas fit with the concept of the person in a non-Western context.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Social Justice
Chapter 1: The Question of Justice
Chapter 2: Why Utilitarianism is not the Best Option
Part II Pluralism, Public Reason, and Political Stability
Chapter 3: The Departure from Classical Liberalism
Chapter 4: Justice as Fairness: A Re-Interpretation
Chapter 5: Why Public Reason is not the “Public Use of Reason”
Chapter 6: Rawls’s Idea of a Well-Ordered Society
Part III Rawls’s Global Justice and the Non-Western World
Chapter 7: Human Rights in The Law of Peoples
Chapter 8: Liberal Individualism and the Concept of the Person in African Philosophy: Implications for Rawls’s Basic Human Rights
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
