The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism
Subtitle: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas
By: Kenneth Baynes.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Albany, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780791408681; 9780791408674
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.; Rawls, John, 1921-; Habermas, Jürgen.; Justice.
Other titles: Normative Grounds of Social Criticism
Description: This book is a comparative study of Kant, Rawls, and Habermas and a critical survey of recent theories of justice. It defends the thesis that the normative ground or basis of social criticism is found in a concept of the person as a free and equal moral being.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987.
Table of contents: title: List of Abbreviations
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
title: Kant’s Theory of Justice
pagenum: 11; label: I.
title: Introduction; label: II.
title: Justice and Morality on Kant; label: III.
title: Property Rights and the Social Contract; label: IV.
title: Conclusion: Problems and Prospects; label: 2.
title: Justice as Fairness: Rawls’s Kantian Interpretation
pagenum: 49; label: I.
title: Introduction; label: II.
title: The Original Position as a "Prodecural Representation" of the Categorical Imperative; label: III.
title: Other Kantian Aspects of Rawls’s Theory of Justice; label: IV.
title: Reflective Equilibrium and the Problem of Justification; label: 3.
title: Communicative Action and Formal Pragmatics: Habermas’s Defense of a Discourse Ethics
pagenum: 77; label: I.
title: Introduction; label: II.
title: Communicative Action and Moral Theory; label: III.
title: Theories of Meaning and Formal Pragmatics; label: IV.
title: The Idea and Jusitification of a Discourse Ethics; label: 4.
title: The Concept of the Person, Moral Autonomy, and Generalizable Interests
pagenum: 123; label: I.
title: Introduction; label: II.
title: Rawls’s Model-Conception of the Person; label: III.
title: Moral Sutonomy as Communicative Competence; label: IV.
title: Primary Goods and Generalizable Interests; label: 5.
title: From Distributive Justice to Normative Social Criticism
pagenum: 153; label: I.
title: Rawls’s Two Principles of Justice; label: II.
title: The Basic Structure and Normative Social Criticism; label: III.
title: Justice, Democratic Participation, and the Public Sphere; label: IV.
title: Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere; title: Notes
pagenum: 183; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 227; title: Index
pagenum: 237