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Subject Headings: Justice, Fairness, Justice as Fairness.

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This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard 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 Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works.” He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings.

Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.

CHAPTER I JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS p.3

2 The Subject of Justice p.6

3 The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice p.10

4 The Original Position and Justifications p.15

5 Classical Utilitarianism p.19

6 Some Related Contrasts p.24

7 Intuitionism p.30

8 The Priority Problem p.36

9 Some Remarks Moral Theory p.40

CHAPTER II THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE p.47

11 Two Principles of Justice p.52

12 Interpretations of the Second Principle p.57

13 Democratic Equality and The Difference Principle p.65

=== 14 Fair Equality of Opportunity and Pure Procedural Justice p.73

15 Primary Social Goods As the Basis the of Expectations p.78

16 Relevant Social Positions 81

17 The Tendency to Equality 86

The Principle of Fairness 93

The Natural Duties 98

CHAPTER III THE ORIGINAL POSITION 102

21 The Presentation of Alternatives 105

22 The Circumstances of Justice 109

23 The Formal Constraints of the Concept of Right 112

24 The Veil of Ignorance 118

25 The Rationality of the Parties 123

26 The Reasoning Leading to the Two Principles of Justice 130

27 The Reasoning Leading to the Principle of Average Utility 139

28 Some Difficulties with the Average Principle 144

29 Some Main Grounds For the Two Principles of Justice 153

30 Classical Utilitarianisms Impartiality and Benevolence 160

Institutions 169

CHAPTER IV EQUAL LIBERTY 171

32 The Concept of Liberty 176

33 Equal Liberty of Conscience 180

34 Toleration and the Common Interest 186

35 Toleration of the Intolerant 190

36 Political Justice and The Constitution 194

37 Limitations of Principle of Participation 200

38 The Rule of Law 206

39 The Priority of Liberty Defined 214

40 The Kantian Interpretation 221

CHAPTER V DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES 228

42 Some Remarks About Economic Systems 234

43 Background Institutions for Distributive Justice 242

44 The Problem of Justice Between Generations 251

45 Time Preference 259

46 Further Cases of Priority 263

47 The Precepts of Justice 267

48 Legitimate Expectations and Moral Desert 273

49 Comparison with Mixed Conceptions 277

50 The Principle of Perfection 285

CHAPTER VI DUTY AND OBLIGATION 293

52 The Arguments for the Principles of Fairness 301

53 The Duty to Comply with an Unjust Law 308

54 The Status of Majority Rule 313

55 The Definition of Civil Disobedience 319

56 The Definition of Conscientious Refusal 323

57 The Justification of Civil Disobedience 326

58 The Justification of Conscientious Refusal 331

59 The Role of Civil Disobedience 335

Ends 345

CHAPTER VII GOODNESS AS RATIONALITY 347

61 The Definition of Good for Simpler Cases 350

62 A Note on Meaning 355

63 The Definitions of Good for Plans of Life 358

64 Deliberative Rationality 365

65 The Aristotelian Principle 372

66 The Definition of Good Applied to Persons 380

67 SelfRespect Excellences and Shame 386

68 Several Contrasts between the Right and the Good 392

CHAPTER VIII THE SENSE OF JUSTICE 397

70 THE Morality of Authority 405

71 The Morality of Association 409

73 Features of the Moral Sentiments 420

74 The Connection Between Moral and Natural Attitudes 425

75 The Principles of Moral Psychology 429

76 The Problem of Relative Stability 434

77 The Basis of Equality 441

CHAPTER IX THE GOOD OF JUSTICE 450

79 The Idea of Social Union 456

80 The Problem of Envy 464

81 Envy and Equality 468

82 The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty 474

83 Happiness and Dominant Ends 480

84 Hedonism as a Method of Choice 486

85 The Unity of the Self 491

86 The Good of the Sense of Justice 496

87 Concluding Remarks on Justification 506

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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2001 JusticeAsFairnessARestatementJohn Rawls (1921-2002)Justice As Fairness: A Restatement2001