Name: Collected Papers
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Author: John Rawls

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Rawls

Illustrated by

Samuel Freeman

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

672

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15x4.3 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN

0674005694

ISBN13

9780674005693

Synopsis "Collected Papers "

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. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays 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. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls's essays is long overdue.

John Rawls

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John Rawls, American philosopher and professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999), and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001). He is widely regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century. His political theory proposes two principles on which to base the notion of justice from an original position in the contractarian spirit of classical political philosophers.

Rawls was awarded the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton.

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