Justice and the social contract
Subtitle: essays on Rawlsian political philosophy
By: Samuel Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780195384635
Subjects: Justice; Gerechtigkeit; Social contract; Politische Philosophie; Sozialvertrag
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. A theory of justice. Reason and agreement in social contract views ; Utilitarianism, deontology, and the priority of right ; Consequentialism, publicity, stability, and property-owning democracy ; Rawls and luck egalitarianism ; Congruence and the good of justice; title: pt. II. Political liberalism. Political Liberalism and the possibility of a just democratic constitution ; Public reason and political justification; title: pt. III. The law of peoples. The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributative justice ; Distributative justice and the law of peoples.