John Bordley Rawls's Books

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.

Previous edition, 1st, published in 1971.

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.

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). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works." He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. Rawls 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.

This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited and The Law of Peoples. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of the subject: Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx. By reconstructing the core of these theories in a way that is informed by contemporary theoretical concerns, the contributors show how the history of the subject is a resource for understanding present and perennial problems in moral and political philosophy.

John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed light on the subject. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction that discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay that places them theological context.

This is a record of my life in Thunder Bay during 2019, the places I visited including Ketchum, Idaho and Washington DC, and the conferences I attended.

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.

The purpose of this book is to encourage readers to read classical books. By perusing this book and recognizing the names of various noted authors, one will be further inclined to pursue the literature that these authors have composed.

Now in its fifth edition, this title has been fully revised and updated in the light of recent developments in world politics, with new chapters on the changing nature of war, human security, and international ethics.

Presidential addresses of one of the largest philosophical societies in the world and the only American philosophical society not devoted to a particular school or philosophical approach. Volume 8 covers the years 1971-1980, including works by Donald Davidson, John Rawls, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty, and containing biographies and photographs of the APA presidents, a list of birthplaces, chronology of the APA, a list of universities and colleges closely associated with each president, and name and subject indices.

Ce livre est considéré dans le monde anglo-saxon comme le texte contemporain le plus important de la philosophie morale et politique. C'est un déli lancé à tous ceux qui pensent que la justice sociale et l'efficacité économique sont incompatibles. Théorie de la justice est un livre de portée universelle, à cause, d'une part, du dialogue qu'il instaure entre deux traditions opposées - Rousseau et Kant confrontés à l'utilitarisme de Mill et de Sidgwick - et, d'autre part, de la rigueur et de la profondeur des analyses qui y sont proposées. C'est, au meilleur sens du terme, un livre de philosophie engagé, donnant aux préoccupations morales et politiques de cette fin du XXe siècle - de la justice sociale à l'écologie, de la politique de l'éducation à la théorie de l'obéissance civile - une armature intellectuelle et une clarté déductive qui leur manquaient. Dans ce livre, souvent difficile mais exaltant, John Rawls a formulé ce qu'on pourrait appeler une charte de la social-démocratie moderne, avec ses forces et ses faiblesses.

This book contains essays by A. John Simmons, perhaps the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers.

Book's by John Bordley Rawls

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice

Collected Papers

Collected Papers

Justice as Fairness

Justice as Fairness

The Law of Peoples

The Law of Peoples

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Reclaiming the History of Ethics

Reclaiming the History of Ethics

A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith

A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith

Orpington to Ontario 2019

Orpington to Ontario 2019

Collected Papers

Collected Papers

A Compendium of World Classical Literature

A Compendium of World Classical Literature

The Globalization of World Politics

The Globalization of World Politics

Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1971-1980

Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1971-1980

Théorie de la justice

Théorie de la justice

Justification and Legitimacy

Justification and Legitimacy

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