1st Edition

Development and Main Outlines of Rawls's Theory of Justice Philosophy of Rawls

Edited By Henry Richardson, Paul Weithman Copyright 2000
330 Pages
by Routledge

John Rawls is the pre-eminent political philosopher of our time. His 1971 masterpiece, A Theory of Justice , permanently changed the landscape of moral and political theory, revitalizing the normative study of social issues and taking stands about justice, ethics, rationality, and philosophical method that continue to draw followers and critics today. His Political Liberalism (rev. ed., 1996)... Read more
Series Introduction, Volume Introductory, Towards Justice as Fairness, Justice of Social Institutions: The Basic Structure as Subject, Rawls’s Social Contract Theory, The Rationality of the Parties

Biography

Paul Weithman University of Notre Dame, Henry S. Richardson Georgetown University.