2001 JusticeAsFairnessARestatement
- (Rawls, 2001) ⇒ John Rawls. (2001). “Justice As Fairness: A Restatement.” Edited by Erin Kelly. Harvard University Press. ISBN:0674005104
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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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2001 JusticeAsFairnessARestatement | John Rawls (1921-2002) | Justice As Fairness: A Restatement | 2001 |