{"product_id":"justice-as-fairness-9780674005112","title":"Justice as Fairness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard University in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise \u003ci\u003ePolitical Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustice as Fairness\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise, self-contained, and up to date presentation of Rawls' views...While \u003ci\u003eJustice as Fairness\u003c\/i\u003e does not present any theoretical departures from Political Liberalism, it deals with important topics Rawls never fully addressed before such as Marx's critique of liberalism and the moral short-comings of welfare state capitalism...Rawls' long-time readers will also be pleased to find that \u003ci\u003eJustice as Fairness\u003c\/i\u003e includes careful replies to Sandel, Sen, Okin and other critics on issues ranging from health care to the legal status of gender differences. -- Robert Briscoe * Boston Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eRawls is one of the two or three most important political thinkers of the 20th century. His accounts of 'justice as fairness' and of 'political liberalism' are among the most widely discussed and cited in the field of political philosophy...[\u003ci\u003eJustice as Fairness\u003c\/i\u003e] provides an integrated statement of his political theory, drawing together and presenting in a unified way, and for the first time, the major arguments and both strands of his work. Even though it is a challenging volume, it will no doubt be the principal introduction to his thinking...An essential text. -- J. D. Moon * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThere have been millions of words written about \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e and many articles and several books by Rawls defending and expanding its doctrines. \u003ci\u003eJustice as Fairness\u003c\/i\u003e will almost certainly be the last of these, and it should take its place as the best and most comprehensive statement of Rawls's eventual position. It is an exemplary work in every way. Rawls's own virtues shine through. He follows the argument where it leads. He listens to his critics and acknowledges his supporters; he gives way when it is necessary, but remains firm where he can take a stand. Anybody convinced that political thought is all about disguised power, or rhetoric, or ideology in the bad sense of the word, should confront this book. -- Simon Blackburn * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Foreword   Preface     Part I Fundamental Ideas   1. Four Roles of Political Philosophy   2. Society as a Fair System of Cooperation   3. The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society   4. The Idea of a Basic Structure   5. Limits to Our Inquiry   6. The Idea of the Original Position   7. The Idea of Free and Equal Persons   8. Relations between the Fundamental Ideas   9. The Idea of Public Justification   10. The Idea of Reflective Equilibrium   11. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus    Part II Principles of Justice   12. Three Basic Points   13. Two Principles of Justice   14. The Problem of Distributive Justice   15. The Basic Structure as Subject: First Kind of Reason   16. The Basic Structure as Subject: Second Kind of Reason   17. Who Are the Least Advantaged?    18. The Difference Principle: Its Meaning   19. Objections via Counterexamples   20. Legitimate Expectations, Entitlement, and Desert   21. On Viewing Native Endowments as a Common Asset   22. Summary Comments on Distributive Justice and Desert    Part III The Argument from the Original Position   23. The Original Position: The Set-Up   24. The Circumstances of Justice   25. Formal Constrains and the Veil of Ignorance   26. The Idea of Public Reason   27. First Fundamental Comparison   28. The Structure of the Argument and the Maximum Rule   29. The Argument Stressing the Third Condition   30. The Priority of the Basic Liberties   31. An Objection about Aversion to Uncertainty   32. The Equal Basic Liberties Revisited   33. The Argument Stressing the Second Condition   34. Second Fundamental Comparison: Introduction   35. Grounds Falling under Publicity   36. Grounds Falling under Reciprocity   37. Grounds Falling under Stability   38. Grounds against the Principle of Restricted Utility   39. Comments on Equality   40. Concluding Remarks    Part IV Institutions of a Just Basic Structure    41. Property-Owning Democracy: Introductory Remarks   42. Some Basic Contrasts between Regimes   43. Ideas of the Good in Justice as Fairness   44. Constitutional versus Procedural Democracy   45. The Fair Value of the Equal Political Liberties   46. Denial of the Fair Value for Other Basic Liberties   47. Political and Comprehensive Liberalism: A Contrast   48. A Note on Head Taxes and the Priority of Liberty   49. Economic Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy   50. The Family as a Basic Institution   51. The Flexibility of an Index of Primary Goods   52. Addressing Marx's Critique of Liberalism   53. Brief Comments on Leisure Time    Part V The Question of Stability   54. The Domain of the Political   55. The Question of Stability   56. Is Justice as Fairness Political in the Wrong Way?    57. How Is Political Liberalism Possible?    58. An Overlapping Consensus Not Utopian   59. A Reasonable Moral Psychology   60. The Good of Political Society    Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865473757527,"sku":"9780674005112","price":26.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674005112.jpg?v=1722274136","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/justice-as-fairness-9780674005112","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}