Collected Papers
Contributors: Samuel Freeman (Editor)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780674137394
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Political Philosophy; Philosophy Of The 20th Century; English; Philosophy; Political; Philosophy / General; Justice; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. But before and after writing his great treatises, Rawls produced a steady stream of essays, some of which articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books.

They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views.