Editor's Preface 1. Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics 2. Two Concepts of Rules 3. Justice as Fairness 4. Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice 5. The Sense of Justice 6. Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play 7. Distributive Justice 8 Distributive Justice: Some Addenda 9. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 10. Justice as Reciprocity 11. Some Reasons for the Maximin Criterion 12. Reply to Alexander and Musgrave 13. A Kantian Conception of Equality 14. Fairness to Goodness 15. The Independence of Moral Theory 16. Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory 17. Social Unity and Primary Goods 18. Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical 19. Preface for the French Edition of A Theory of Justice 20. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus 21. The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good 22. The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus 23. Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy 24. The Law of Peoples 25. Fifty Years after Hiroshima 26. The Idea of Public Reason Revisited 27. Commonweal Interview with John Rawls Credits Index
John Rawls was James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. He was recipient of the 1999 National Humanities Medal. Samuel Freeman is Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania.
What a body of work this is, and what an accomplishment. Collected
Papers affords an opportunity to step back and see [Rawls's] work
as a whole, as the elaboration of a single powerful and abiding
idea...The other thing these papers show--and for this we should be
grateful to Sam Freeman's persistence in having them
republished--is how hard-won Rawls's achievement has been... This
volume of Collected Papers stands as an inspiration to the next
generation of theorists.
*London Review of Books*
The course of Rawls's career can be followed clearly in the
Collected Papers, whose twenty-seven chapters span forty-eight
years...The writings of John Rawls, whom it is now safe to describe
as the most important political philosopher of the twentieth
century...owe their influence to the fact that their depth and
their insight repay the close attention that their uncompromising
theoretical weight and erudition demand.
*New Republic*
[John Rawls] has, among other things, rescued an endangered
academic practice, the serious and disciplined study of the great
issues of public values by professional philosophers, from imminent
extinction and given a remarkable exemplary display of how to
devote an entire intellectual life to the patient, frank and
indefatigable study of a single great intellectual problem. His
Collected Papers, naturally, covers the whole of that life, from
two decades before he published his masterpiece, A Theory of
Justice, in 1971 to more than 25 years later.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
The publication of this book is an important event. Since the
appearance of Rawls's epoch-making A Theory of Justice in 1971, he
has been acknowledged as America's-perhaps the world's--leading
political philosopher...The story of 'How John Rawls Revived
Political Philosophy and Rejuvenated Liberalism' is part of
academic legend...Rawls is a sophisticated and ambitious thinker.
His arguments are informed by a deep sense of history and draw on
an array of different disciplines...Rawls also did the index to A
Theory of Justice and it is a masterpiece of the art. Rawls's
thoroughness, indeed, is the stuff of legends.
*Prospect*
In 1971, Rawls published A Theory of Justice, which has come to be
generally regarded as the century's major systematic work of
substantive ethics and political philosophy; about 20 years later,
in Political Liberalism, he examined issues arising from it. This
collection includes nearly all of his published essays, beginning
with the first (1951) and running to as recently as 1997 and an
interview in 1998. It reveals his beginnings in utilitarianism and
the dissatisfactions that led to his contractarianism and to his
examination of such matters as public consensus in a pluralistic
society, public reason, the compatibility of religious and
comprehensive secular doctrine in a liberal society, commonality in
human laws, Kant's moral philosophy, and more. These essays both
clarify Rawls's thought and make significant contributions to their
subject.
*Library Journal*
[Collected Papers is] a nearly complete collection of Rawls's short
essays from 1951 through 1998. What is arguably the most widely
discussed political theory of the second half of the 20th century
emerged from an evolutionary process. By making available in one
volume the papers through which Harvard philosopher Rawls initially
tried out his ideas, Freeman provides easy access to the steps
taken along the way...What the reader will find in this volume are
the starts and stops, the grappling with issues of moral
philosophy, and especially later in his career, the confrontation
with concerns such as religious belief that threaten the
assumptions of rationality and the positive value of reasonableness
upon which his vision of justice depends. A convenient and welcome
compilation.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Editor Freeman has assembled almost all the articles of
20th-century American philosopher John Rawls. Originally published
elsewhere during the span of his career, these works together
testify to Rawls's belief that a just society is an actionable
idea. They anticipate his two most distinguished and influential
works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism...Freeman's
anthology is exemplary and ought to appeal to a wide professional
audience and the educated public.
*Choice*
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