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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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12The 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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35Ideal 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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21Liberalism 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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19Book 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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49RawlsRoutledge. 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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49Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic CommentPhilosophy and Public Affairs 29 (4): 371-418. 2000.
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121The Cambridge companion to Rawls (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.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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112Original 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 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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