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. -- Jeremy Waldron * 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. -- Thomas
Nagel * 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. -- John Dunn *
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. -- Ben
Rogers * 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. -- Robert Hoffman
* 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. --
A. S. Rosenbaum * Choice *
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