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108Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, John Rawls received his undergraduate and graduate education at Princeton. After earning his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1950, Rawls taught at Princeton, Cornell, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and, since 1962, at Harvard, where he is now emeritus. Rawls is best known for A Theory of Justice (1971) and for developments of that theory he has published since. Rawls believes that the utilitarian tradition has dominated modern political philosophy in En…Read more
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18Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.For close to forty years now T.M. Scanlon has been one of the most important contributors to moral and political philosophy in the Anglo-American world. Through both his writing and his teaching, he has played a central role in shaping the questions with which research in moral and political philosophy now grapples. Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a …Read more
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154Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, ...
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13The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of JusticeIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.John Rawls's focus on principles of justice for the basic structure of primary social institutions evolved from his early discussion of practices, social rules and Humean conventions, and his apparent commitment to a version of rule‐utilitarianism. Rawls says that there are two sources for the primacy assigned to the basic structure: the profound effects of basic social institutions on persons and their future prospects, and the need to maintain background justice. The chapter discusses three di…Read more
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10Distributive Justice and the Law of PeoplesIn Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction A Global Distribution Principle? Problems with Globalizing the Difference Principle Conclusion Notes.
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36Ideal theory, political liberalism, and the well‐ordered societyJournal of Social Philosophy 55 (2): 278-298. 2023.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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High liberalismIn Chris Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Routledge. 2022.
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22Liberalism and Distributive Justice. A PrécisPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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19Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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19Review of David Lyons: Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (review)Ethics 105 (1): 191-193. 1994.
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87Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawisian Political PhilosophyOxford University Press USA. 2006.Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' foremost interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position. Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is an excellent thinker in his own …Read more
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31Liberalism and Distributive JusticeOup Usa. 2018.Liberalism and Distributive Justice discusses liberalism, capitalism, distributive justice, and John Rawls's difference principle. Chapters are organized in a narrative arc: from liberalism as the dominant political and economic system, to the laws governing interpersonal transactions in liberal society, to basic economic and political institutions that determine distributive justice.
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20Book Reviews Geuss, Raymond . Philosophy and Real Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 126. $19.95 (cloth) (review)Ethics 120 (1): 175-184. 2009.
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23Book ReviewsFred Neuhouser,. Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 332. $52.50 (review)Ethics 112 (4): 848-854. 2002.
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6Review of David Lyons: Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (review)Ethics 105 (1): 191-193. 1994.
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17Contractualism, Moral Motivation, and Practical ReasonJournal of Philosophy 88 (6): 281-303. 1991.
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39Moral contractarianism as a foundation for interpersonal moralityIn James Lawrence Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 6--57. 2006.
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52Constructivism, Facts, and Moral JustificationIn Thomas Christiano & John Philip 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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217Reason and agreement in social contract viewsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (2): 122-157. 1990.
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251G. A. Cohen's Critique of Rawls's Difference PrincipleThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 19 23-45. 2013.
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248The 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 Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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