Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’

Published by Stanford University Press 1989

Reading Rawls

Critical Studies on Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’

Edited by: Norman Daniels

In the series Stanford Series in Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620919

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About this book

First published in 1975, this collection includes many of the best critical responses to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, and the editor has elected to reissue the book without making any substitutions. As he argues in his new preface, the variety of issues raise in the original papers has been a major part of the book's appeal. He also acknowledges that no modest revision of this book could pretend to respond adequately to the considerable elaboration and evolution of Rawls' theory in the last fifteen years. Political philosophy has been one of the most exciting areas of philosophical activity in the years since A Theory of Justice, and much of that activity has been a response to Rawls' work. In his preface, the editor suggests how some of the insights and criticisms contained in the collection have had a bearing on developments in Rawls' theory and in political philosophy more generally, and that fresh reading of each of them reveals additional important points that have not yet received adequate attention. The contributors are: Benjamin Barber, Norman Daniels, Gerald Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin, Joel Feinberg, Milton Fisk, R.M. Hare, H.L.A. Hart, David Lyons, Frank Michelman, Richard Miller, Thomas Nagel, T.M. Scanlon, and A.K. Sen.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
Part One: The Original Position
1. Thomas Nagel: Rawls on Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Ronald Dworkin: The Original Position Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3. Milton Fisk: History and Reason in Rawls' Moral Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part Two: Questions of Method
4. R. M. Hare: Rawls' Theory of Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Joel Feinberg: Rawls and Intuitionism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
6. Gerald Dworkin: Non-Neutral Principles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
7. David Lyons: Nature and Soundness of the Contract and Coherence Arguments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part Three: The Principles of justice
8. T. M. Scanlon: Rawls' Theory of Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
9. Richard Miller: Rawls and Marxism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
10. H. L.A. Hart: Rawls on Liberty and its Priority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
11. Norman Daniels: Equal Liberty and Unequal Worth ~~~ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Part Four: Views from the Social Sciences
12. A. K. Sen: Rawls versus Bentham: An Axiomatic Examination of the Pure Distribution Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
13. Benjamin Barber: Justifying Justice: Problems of Psychology, Politics and Measurement in Rawls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
14. Frank Michelman: Constitutional Welfare Rights and A Theory of Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Selected Bibliography on John Rawls: Post 1971 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 408

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Published: January 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781503620919