Justice as fairness

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This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain

subjects: Justice,  Ethics,  Fairness,  Justice (Philosophy),  open_syllabus_project,  Justiça (aspectos políticos),  Théorie politique,  Equité,  Social Justice,  Rechtvaardigheid,  Justice sociale,  Impartialité,  Jc578 .r3693 2001,  320/.01/1