"...A clear, concise account of [John] Rawls' theory [of justice], and its significance in contemporary political philosophy..."--Cover 4.
This is a short, accessible introduction to John Rawls' thought and gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls' theory as well as drawing links between Rawls' enterprise and other important positions in moral ...
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...
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists.
In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive ...
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s.
This book introduces his central ideas and examines their contribution to contemporary political thought.
"Though the "Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice", published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition.
The Hobbes and Hume lectures presented here were mainly derived from transcriptions of recording tapes of Rawls's lectures for that term, which have been supplemented by Rawls's handwritten lecture notes and class handouts.1 Rawls ...
Realizing Rawls
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century.