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A Theory of Justice (Belknap)
by: John Rawls
September, 1999
Publisher: Belknap Pr; ISBN: 0674000781

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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a  classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of  difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to  express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice  as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated  the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century.  Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that  even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published

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Political Liberalism
by: John Rawls
15 October, 1995
Publisher: Columbia University Press; ISBN: 0231052499

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Revising and continuing the idea of justice and fairness in "A Theory of Justice", Rawls poses the question of how a stable and  just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when deeply divided by reasonable and incompatible doctrines. With its distinctive form of liberalism -­resting on an idea of free public reason-- Political Liberalism  yields new insights into the question of justice in our pluralistic society. 

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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
by: John Rawls, Erin Kelly
May, 2001
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674005112

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The Law of Peoples
by:John Rawls
March, 2001
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674005422

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Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls on Rawls 'a Theory of Justice'
by: Norman Daniels
May, 1989
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr; ISBN: 0804715033

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The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
by: Samuel Freeman
November, 2002
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521657067

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John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of new essays, many of the world’s leading political and moral theorists discuss the  full range of Rawls’s contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism, and international justice. There are also assessments of Rawls’s controversial relationships with feminism, utilitarianism and communitarianism. New readers will find this the most  accessible guide to Rawls currently available. Advanced students and specialists  will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Rawls.

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Samuel Freeman, Thomas Nagel, Joshua Cohen, T. M. Scanlon, Amy Gutmann, Philippe van Parijs, Norman Daniels, Burton Dreben,  Charles  Larmore, Frank I. Michelman, Samuel Scheffler,Stephen Mulhall, Adam Swift, Martha Nussbaum

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