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OverviewJohn Rawls (1921-2002) was one of the 20th century's most important philosophers and continues to be among the most widely discussed of contemporary thinkers. His work, particularly A Theory of Justice, is integral to discussions of social and international justice, democracy, liberalism, welfare economics, and constitutional law, in departments of philosophy, politics, economics, law, public policy, and others. Samuel Freeman is one of Rawls's foremost interpreters. This volume contains nine of his essays on Rawls and Rawlsian justice, two of which are previously unpublished. Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, addresses criticisms of his positions, and discusses the implications of his views on issues of distributive justice, liberalism and democracy, international justice, and other subjects. This collection will be useful to the wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and theories of justice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel Freeman (Stephen F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law, Stephen F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.662kg ISBN: 9780195301410ISBN 10: 0195301412 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 21 December 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: A Theory of Justice Chapter One: Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views Chapter Two: Utilitarian, Deontology, and the Priority of Right Chapter Three: Consequentialist, Publicity, Stability, and Property-Owning Democracy Chapter Four: Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism Chapter Five: Congruence and the Good Justice Part Two: Political Liberalism Chapter Six: Political Liberalism and the Possibility of a Just Democratic Constitution Chapter Seven: Public Reason and Political Justification Part Three: The Law of Peoples Chapter Eight: The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice Chapter Nine: Distributed Justice and the Law of Peoples Appendices Appendix A: Remarks on John Rawls, Memorial Service, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, February 27, 2003 Appendix B: John Rawls: Friend and Teacher (Obituary from The Chronical Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 13, 2002)ReviewsHighly recommended. --D.H. Rice, CHOICE Freeman seems to have read almost all of the classical philosophical sources on which Rawls drew, to have assimilated large stretches of contemporary and secondary literature, and to have thought deeply about every sentence Rawls ever wrote.... The result is an extraordinarily substantial set of papers...this is a very valuable book. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Freeman is the leading authority on the thought and writing of John Rawls, and Rawls was the leading political and social philosopher of the twentieth century. Freeman's clear, careful, and deeply informed studies in these essays offer important insight about basic questions of interpretation and justification--about Rawls's contractualism, about his relation to utilitarianism, about the idea of public reason, and about his reasons for limiting his principles of distributive justice to the self-contained nation-state. --Thomas Nagel, New York University Freeman is one of the leading political philosophers of his generation. His influential papers include some of the most sophisticated and illuminating discussions of themes from Rawls's earlier and later work. This important collection will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in political philosophy. --R. Jay Wallace, University of California at Berkeley <br> Highly recommended. --D.H. Rice, CHOICE<p><br> Freeman seems to have read almost all of the classical philosophical sources on which Rawls drew, to have assimilated large stretches of contemporary and secondary literature, and to have thought deeply about every sentence Rawls ever wrote.... The result is an extraordinarily substantial set of papers...this is a very valuable book. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br> Freeman is the leading authority on the thought and writing of John Rawls, and Rawls was the leading political and social philosopher of the twentieth century. Freeman's clear, careful, and deeply informed studies in these essays offer important insight about basic questions of interpretation and justification--about Rawls's contractualism, about his relation to utilitarianism, about the idea of public reason, and about his reasons for limiting his principles of distributive justice to the self-contained nation-state. --Thomas Nagel, New York University<p><br> Freeman is one of the leading political philosophers of his generation. His influential papers include some of the most sophisticated and illuminating discussions of themes from Rawls's earlier and later work. This important collection will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in political philosophy. --R. Jay Wallace, University of California at Berkeley<p><br> Highly recommended. D.H. Rice, Choice Highly recommended. --D.H. Rice, CHOICE<br> Freeman seems to have read almost all of the classical philosophical sources on which Rawls drew, to have assimilated large stretches of contemporary and secondary literature, and to have thought deeply about every sentence Rawls ever wrote.... The result is an extraordinarily substantial set of papers...this is a very valuable book. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br> Freeman is the leading authority on the thought and writing of John Rawls, and Rawls was the leading political and social philosopher of the twentieth century. Freeman's clear, careful, and deeply informed studies in these essays offer important insight about basic questions of interpretation and justification--about Rawls's contractualism, about his relation to utilitarianism, about the idea of public reason, and about his reasons for limiting his principles of distributive justice to the self-contained nation-state. --Thomas Nagel, New York University<br> Freeman is one of the leading political philosophers of his generation. His influential papers include some of the most sophisticated and illuminating discussions of themes from Rawls's earlier and later work. This important collection will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in political philosophy. --R. Jay Wallace, University of California at Berkeley<br> Author InformationSamuel Freeman is Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania. He edited both John Rawls's Collected Papers (1999) and his Essays in the History of Political Philosophy (2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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