Rawls / Samuel Freeman.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2007.

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Rawls, John, -- 1921-2002.

Biography.

Political science -- Philosophy.

1. Introduction

2. Liberalism, democracy, and the principles of justice

3. The second principle and distributive justice

4. The original position

5. Just institutions

6. The stability of justice as fairness

7. Kantian constructivism and the transition to political liberalism

8. Political liberalism I - the domain of the political

9. Political liberalism II - overlapping consensus and public reason

10. The law of peoples

11. Conclusion.

John Rawls was the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century. In his introduction to this monumental theorist, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawl's philosophy and his legacy, and charts the influences on his early thinking.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780415301091

xxi, 550 p. ; 22 cm