John Rawls - Reticent Socialist
Ideal Theory and Practical Demands
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Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28637448M
- ISBN-139781107173194
- OCLC Control Number982092198
- Library of Congress Control Number2017014849
Classifications
- LCCJC578.E346 2017
Description
"This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, who was perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Rawls's 1971 treatise, A theory of justice, stimulated an outpouring of commentary on "justice-as-fairness," his conception of justice for an ideal, self-contained, modern political society. Most of that commentary took Rawls to be defending welfare-state capitalism as found in Western Europe and the United States. Far less attention has been given to Rawls's 2001 book, Justice as fairness: a restatement. In the Restatement, Rawls not only substantially reformulates the "original position" argument for the two principles of justice-as-fairness but also repudiates capitalist regimes as possible embodiments. Edmundson further develops Rawls's non-ideal theory, which guides us when we find ourselves in a society that falls well short of justice."--Page 4 of cover.
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