1st Edition
Reflections on Rawls An Assessment of his Legacy
Edited By Shaun P. Young
Copyright 2009
236 Pages
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Routledge
234 Pages
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Routledge
234 Pages
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Routledge
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The late John Rawls was one of the most inspiring, provocative and influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection a panel of distinguished political philosophers critically explore the intellectual legacy of Rawls. The essays herein engage Rawls's political theorizing from his earliest published writings in the 1950s to his final publication in 2001, Justice as... Read more
Introduction, Shaun P. Young; Chapter 1 Rawls’s Public Reason and American society, George Klosko; Chapter 2 Primary Goods versus Capabilities: Defending the Good against the Equally Good?, Harry Brighouse, Elaine Unterhalter; Chapter 3 Rawls’s Commitment to Fair Equality of Opportunity: Rethinking His Arguments for Democratic Equality Four Decades Later, Lesley A. Jacobs; Chapter 4 John Rawls’s Genealogy of Liberalism, Ronald Beiner; Chapter 5 Rawls’s Social Contract: Not Really, Jan Narveson; Chapter 6 Realism and Moralism in Political Theory: The Legacies of John Rawls, William A. Galston; Chapter 7 John Rawls: Liberalism at the Limits of Intolerance, Glen Newey; Chapter 8 Is Political Liberalism Hostile to Religion?, Patrick Neal; Chapter 9 Political Toleration and Coercive Intervention in the International Sphere, Rex Martin; Chapter 10 Rawls’s Priority of Rights: Quandaries and Implications for International Relations and the Issue of Intervention, David P. Shugarman;
Biography
Shaun P. Young is an External Fellow of McLaughlin College, and an External Associate at the York Centre for Practical Ethics, both at York University, Canada.
