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4John Rawls–an OverviewIn Samuel Richard Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--59. 2003.
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206Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the Priority of RightPhilosophy and Public Affairs 23 (4): 313-349. 1994.
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47RawlsRoutledge. 2007.In this superb introduction, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawls' philosophy. Starting with a brief biography and charting the influences on Rawls' early thinking, he goes on to discuss the heart of Rawls's philosophy: his principles of justice and their practical application to society. Subsequent chapters discuss Rawls's theories of liberty, political and economic justice, democratic institutions, goodness as rationality, moral psychology, political liberalism, and …Read more
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124Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic CommentPhilosophy and Public Affairs 29 (4): 371-418. 2000.
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117The Cambridge companion to Rawls (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In th…Read more
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109Original meaning, democratic interpretation, and the constitutionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 21 (1): 3-42. 1992.
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52Constructivism, Facts, and Moral JustificationIn Thomas Christiano & John Christman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: What Are Fundamental Principles of Justice? Justice, Human Needs and Moral Capacities The Social Role of a Conception of Justice Justice and the Human Good Methodological Remarks Notes.
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209Reason and agreement in social contract viewsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (2): 122-157. 1990.
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249G. A. Cohen's Critique of Rawls's Difference PrincipleThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 19 23-45. 2013.
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243The burdens of public justification: Constructivism, contractualism, and publicityPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (1): 5-43. 2007.The publicity of a moral conception is a central idea in Kantian and contractarian moral theory. Publicity carries the idea of general acceptability of principles through to social relations. Without publicity of its moral principles, the intuitive attractiveness of the contractarian ideal seems diminished. For it means that moral principles cannot serve as principles of practical reasoning and justification among free and equal persons. This article discusses the role of the publicity assumptio…Read more
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2Original positionIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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189Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal TraditionsSocial Philosophy and Policy 28 (2): 19-55. 2011.Liberalism generally holds that legitimate political power is limited and is to be impartially exercised, only for the public good. Liberals accordingly assign political priority to maintaining certain basic liberties and equality of opportunities; they advocate an essential role for markets in economic activity, and they recognize government's crucial role in correcting market breakdowns and providing public goods. Classical liberalism and what I call “the high liberal tradition” are two main b…Read more
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