John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice

Contents......Page 14
1. Biography......Page 20
1.1 Family and Schooling......Page 21
1.2 College and War......Page 26
1.3 Academic Career......Page 33
1.4 The Turbulent Decade 1962–1971......Page 35
1.5 After A Theory of Justice......Page 39
1.6 The Meaning of Rawls’s Project......Page 43
2. The Focus on the Basic Structure......Page 45
2.1 The Origin of the Theory......Page 46
2.2 The Complexity of Modern Societies......Page 48
2.3 The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus......Page 51
2.4 The Scope of the Theory......Page 55
3. A Top-Tier Criterion of Justice......Page 59
3.1 Purely Recipient-Oriented Criteria of Justice......Page 60
3.2 The Anonymity Condition......Page 65
3.3 Fundamental Interests versus Happiness......Page 70
4.1 The Original Position......Page 77
4.2 Maximin versus Average......Page 84
4.3 Primary Goods......Page 90
4.4 The Lexical Priority of the Basic Liberties......Page 94
5. The First Principle of Justice......Page 99
5.1 The Structure of a Basic Right......Page 100
5.2 Formulating the Required Scheme of Basic Rights and Liberties......Page 102
5.3 The Fair Value of the Basic Political Liberties......Page 108
5.4 Permissible Reductions of Basic Liberties......Page 113
5.5 Impermissible Reductions of Basic Liberties......Page 118
6.1 The Difference Principle in First Approximation......Page 123
6.2 The Difference Principle in Detail......Page 127
6.3 Advocating the Difference Principle in the Original Position......Page 132
6.4 The Opportunity Principle......Page 137
6.5 Advocating the Opportunity Principle in the Original Position......Page 143
6.6 A Property-Owning Democracy......Page 150
7. A Rawlsian Society......Page 152
7.1 A Well-Ordered Society......Page 154
7.2 A Political Conception of Justice......Page 156
7.3 Political versus Comprehensive Liberalisms......Page 161
7.4 An Egalitarian Liberal Conception of Justice......Page 165
7.5 A Society Well-Ordered by Rawls’s Conception......Page 170
7.6 A More Realistic Vision......Page 173
8. On Justification......Page 178
8.1 Reflective Equilibrium......Page 179
8.2 Fundamental Ideas......Page 187
8.3 Truth and Reasonableness......Page 191
9.1 Rawls and Libertarianism......Page 195
9.2 Rawls and Communitarianism......Page 202
9.3 Rawls and Kant......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 213
A.1 Timeline......Page 214
A.2.1 Works by Rawls......Page 215
A.2.2 Selected Secondary Works......Page 216
B......Page 232
C......Page 233
E......Page 235
G......Page 236
I......Page 237
J......Page 238
M......Page 239
O......Page 240
P......Page 241
R......Page 242
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T......Page 244
W......Page 245