Graham, Paul.

Rawls / Paul Graham. - Oxford : Oneworld, c2007. - viii, 184 p. ; 20 cm. - Oneworld thinkers .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Life and work -- Justice -- The prisoner's dilemma -- The original position -- Principles of justice -- The original position -- Parameters of the theory -- Motivation -- Proceduralism -- Reflective equilibrium and stability -- Principles of justice -- Options -- Equal liberty -- Fair equality of opportunity -- The difference principle -- Just savings -- The difference principle in focus -- Nozick and autonomy -- Cohen and motivational instability -- Dworkin and resourcism -- Experimental approaches to justice -- The original position in focus -- Sandel and communitarianism -- Gilligan and feminism -- Nagel on the personal and the impersonal -- Natural duty and political obligation -- Civil disobedience and punishment -- Majority rule -- The role of civil disobedience -- King and the civil rights movement -- Punishment -- Political liberalism -- A Moralized Modus Vivendi -- Stability -- Reasonable pluralism -- Overlapping consensus -- Rawls and Habermas -- Autonomy and religious commitment -- The law of peoples -- Liberal peoples -- Non-liberal peoples -- Just wars -- Global distributive justice.

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Rawls, John, 1921-2002.


Political science--Philosophy.
Rechtvaardigheid.

JC578.R383 / G739 2007

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