Title: Justice as Fairness
First published: 1958
Description: This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain
Subjects: Justice, Ethics, Fairness, Justice (Philosophy), open_syllabus_project, Justiça (aspectos políticos), Théorie politique, Equité, Social Justice, Rechtvaardigheid, Justice sociale, Impartialité, Jc578 .r3693 2001, 320/.01/1