The Cambridge companion to Rawls

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
I. PRELIMINARIES......Page 15
A. The Principles of Justice......Page 17
B. The Argument from the Original Position......Page 24
C. The Good of Justice and the Stability of a Well-Ordered Society......Page 35
A. Problems with Rawls’s Argument for Stability......Page 42
B. A Freestanding Political Conception and Overlapping Consensus......Page 46
C. Public Reason......Page 51
IV. THE LAW OF PEOPLES......Page 58
V. OUT LINE OF VOLUME......Page 65
ENDNOTES......Page 66
I......Page 76
II......Page 80
III......Page 86
IV......Page 92
V......Page 96
ENDNOTES......Page 98
1. JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS......Page 100
2. JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY......Page 105
2.1. Content: Constitutional Democracy......Page 106
2.2. Foundation: Democratic Society......Page 109
2.3. Deliberative Democracy......Page 114
3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT......Page 118
4. TOO LITTLE DEMOCRACY?......Page 125
Institutional Subordination......Page 129
Denigration......Page 135
But .........Page 143
ENDNOTES......Page 145
3 Rawls on Justification......Page 153
I......Page 154
II......Page 167
III......Page 171
ENDNOTES......Page 180
4 Rawls on the Relationship between Liberalism and Democracy......Page 182
1. EQUAL POLITICAL LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC EQUALITY......Page 184
2. CO-ORIGINALITY OF POLITICAL AND PERSONAL LIBERTY......Page 186
3. AN INTIMATE MARRIAGE......Page 188
4. COPING WITH CONFLICTS AMONG BASIC LIBERTIES......Page 195
5. EVALUATING MAJORITY RULE......Page 201
6. PUBLICLY DEFENSIBLE DISCOURSE IN POLITICS......Page 206
ENDNOTES......Page 211
5 Difference Principles......Page 214
A. Rawls’s Two Conceptions of Justice......Page 215
B. A Theory of Justice’s Three Formulations of the Difference Principle......Page 216
C. When Close-Knitness Breaks Down: More and Less Egalitarian Versions of the Difference Principle......Page 219
D. The Lexical Difference Principle and Its Radical Extensions......Page 223
A. Outcome Egalitarianism?......Page 225
B. The Least Fortunate and the Incumbents of the Worst Position......Page 227
(1) Maximin Scores......Page 230
(2) Maximin Expectations......Page 232
A. The Constraint of the First Two Principles......Page 236
B. No Resources Left for the Difference Principle?......Page 238
C. The Thick Conception of the Well-Ordered Society......Page 240
D. The Institutional Division of Labour......Page 242
E. Motivation-Conscious Institutional Engineering......Page 244
CONCLUSION......Page 245
ENDNOTES......Page 247
1. THREE EGALITARIAN CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRATIC EQUALITY......Page 255
Why “Democratic” Equality?......Page 258
Democratic Equality Draws on Multiple Egalitarian Concerns......Page 260
Mitigating the Moral Arbitrariness of Certain Contingencies......Page 263
Overemphasizing Moral Arbitrariness Undermines Democratic Equality......Page 266
Is the Index of Primary Social Goods Insensitive to Important Inequalities?......Page 270
Extending Rawls’s Theory to Cover Disease and Disability......Page 271
The Social Determinants of Health: Democratic Equality is Good for Our Health......Page 273
Leaving Too Much Leeway to Individuals......Page 277
Are the Inequality-Producing Incentives Rawls Permits Unnecessary and Unjustifiable?......Page 279
What Does a Commitment to the Difference Principle Really Involve?......Page 281
How Should We Evaluate the “Shortfall” from the Ideal Result for the Worst Off?......Page 283
5. SUMMARY REMARKS......Page 284
ENDNOTES......Page 285
I. STABILITY AND CONGRUENCE: OUTLINE OF ISSUES......Page 291
II. THE QUESTION OF CONGRUENCE......Page 297
III. THE GOOD OF JUSTICE AND THE KANTIAN CONGRUENCE ARGUMENT......Page 304
IV. FINALITY AND THE PRIORITY OF JUSTICE......Page 311
V. THE TRANSITION TO POLITICAL LIBERALISM......Page 317
ENDNOTES......Page 322
8 On Rawls and Political Liberalism......Page 330
ENDNOTES......Page 360
I. THE AMBITIONS OF CONSTRUCTIVISMS IN ETHICS......Page 361
II. THE EVOLUTION OF RAWLS’S CONSTRUCTIVISM......Page 363
III. RAWLS’S ACCOUNT OF KANT’S CONSTRUCTIVISM......Page 367
IV. KANT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF REASON......Page 371
V. SOME CONCLUSIONS......Page 375
ENDNOTES......Page 377
10 Public Reason......Page 382
I. PUBLICITY IN A THEORY OF JUSTICE......Page 383
II. FROM PUBLICITY TO PUBLIC REASON......Page 389
III. THE DOMAIN OF PUBLIC REASON......Page 394
IV. THE RULES OF PUBLIC REASON......Page 398
V. CONCLUSION......Page 404
ENDNOTES......Page 405
11 Rawls on Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law......Page 408
A. Political Liberalism as Constitutional Contractarianism......Page 409
B. Political Liberalism’s Restricted Universe......Page 411
C. “Justice As Fairness” (the “Two Principles of Justice”) as a Contentious Instance of Political Liberalism......Page 412
D. The Categories of Rawlsian Constitutional Analysis......Page 414
E. Constitutional Essentials and Judicial Review......Page 417
F. Constitutional Essentials and Transparency......Page 418
G. On the Margin: Fair Value of the Political Liberties and Basic Material Needs......Page 420
A. “The Law of the Land”......Page 422
B. The Libertarian Core in Constitutional Law......Page 423
C. An Exemplary Case: Same-Sex Marriage......Page 424
D. The Basic Liberties: “Formal” or Material?......Page 428
E. Application of the Basic Liberties: “Vertical” Only, or “Horizontal” Too?......Page 429
ENDNOTES......Page 434
12 Rawls and Utilitarianism......Page 440
ENDNOTES......Page 467
13 Rawls and Communitarianism......Page 474
Conception of the Person......Page 478
Asocial Individualism......Page 480
Universalism......Page 483
Neutrality......Page 484
Conception of the Person......Page 489
Asocial Individualism......Page 491
Universalism......Page 492
Neutrality......Page 495
ENDNOTES......Page 499
14 Rawls and Feminism......Page 502
A. Seeking Reflective Equilibrium......Page 503
B. The Original Position......Page 505
C. The Well-Ordered Society......Page 510
II. JUSTICE IN THE FAMILY......Page 513
III. RELIGION AND PUBLIC REASON......Page 521
IV. DEPENDENCY AND WOMEN’S WORK......Page 525
CONCLUSION......Page 528
ENDNOTES......Page 529
WORKS BY JOHN RAWLS......Page 535
BOOKS ON OR SUBSTANTIALLY ABOUT RAWLS......Page 538
ANTHOLOGIES ON RAWLS......Page 539
ARTICLES ON A THEORY OF JUSTICE......Page 540
POLITICAL LIBERALISM......Page 545
RAWLS AND SOCIAL CONTRACT DOCTRINE......Page 549
LIBERALISM AND THE PRIORITY OF BASIC LIBERTIES......Page 550
EGALITARIANISM, DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, AND THE DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE......Page 551
ON JUSTIFICATION IN MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: CONSTRUCTIVISM, REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM, AND PUBLIC REASON......Page 554
RAWLS’S MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE STABILITY OF JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS......Page 556
RAWLS AND KANT: THE KANTIAN INTERPRETATION AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE PERSON......Page 557
RAWLS, JUSTICE, AND INDIVIDUAL DESERT......Page 558
RAWLS, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE RULE OF LAW......Page 559
RAWLS AND UTILITARIANISM......Page 560
RAWLS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY......Page 561
RAWLS AND COMMUNITARIANISM......Page 562
RAWLS AND FEMINISM......Page 563
THE LAW OF PEOPLES AND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE......Page 565
RAWLS, MARX, AND LEFT CRITICISM......Page 566
RAWLS AND RELIGION......Page 567
DISCUSSIONS AND CRITICISMS OF RAWLS’S EARLY WORKS......Page 568
MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSIONS AND REVIEWS......Page 569
INDEX......Page 571