1st Edition

Rawls and the Environmental Crisis

By Dominic Welburn Copyright 2017
146 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

The liberal political theorist John Rawls, despite remaining largely silent on ‘green concerns’, was writing during a time of increasing awareness that the ecological stability of the earth is being compromised by human activity. Rawls’s reluctance to engage with such concerns, however, has not stopped several scholars attempting to ‘extend’, or ‘expand’, his works to incorporate this newfound... Read more

Chapter 1: Rawls and the Political Liberalism

Chapter 2: Rawls on Green Concerns

Chapter 3: A Green Critique of Rawls

Chapter 4: A Second Green Critique

Biography

Dominic Welburn is a Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University.