The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
Author: Jon Mandle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316193985

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John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.

The Principle of Fairness and Natural Duties

The Principle of Fairness and Natural Duties
Author: Aaron Finley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Principle of Fairness and Natural Duties defends the Principle of Fairness (PoF) as a widely applicable moral principle that can ground obligations to obey the law. The first three chapters develop an interpretation of the PoF by responding to criticisms from A. John Simmons. Simmons argues that, for the principle of fairness to generate obligations, beneficiaries of cooperative public-goods schemes must voluntarily accept the benefits they receive. I argue against Simmons's voluntarism by showing that, even on his view, mere receipt of benefits that are worth their cost can trigger fairness obligations. In a similar vein, Simmons argues that the PoF requires a type of cooperation that we do not see in political communities. Thus, even if his voluntarism argument fails, Simmons can conclude that the PoF cannot ground political obligation. In response, I argue that the cooperation condition can be removed from the PoF entirely. Simmons's arguments defend the broader claim that the PoF applies to few individuals and generates few obligations. In pushing back against this conclusion, I argue that the PoF applies not only to natural agents, such as humans, but also to some artificial agents such as governments and corporations. While the PoF is a robust moral principle, it may not be able to satisfactorily ground political obligation. The last two chapters of this dissertation, therefore, explore the possibility of combining the PoF with natural duties. This combination has been attempted several times in the literature on political obligation. Most often, the PoF is combined with some version of the natural duty to rescue. I argue that this duty can be combined with the PoF, but that the combination cannot ground political obligation. Rather, they ground an obligation to perform one's fair share of global rescues, though each individual has some discretion in choosing which rescue efforts to contribute to. To ground political obligation, the PoF must be combined with the natural duty of justice. The two principles are mutually reinforcing, answering objections that each, alone, cannot overcome. This combination leads to a novel theory of political obligation.

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice
Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674042603

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Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Reconstructing Rawls

Reconstructing Rawls
Author: Robert S. Taylor
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271056711

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Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment—more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls’s so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice’s implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory—a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.

Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?

Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?
Author: Christopher Wellman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2005-07-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316582965

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The central question in political philosophy is whether political states have the right to coerce their constituents and whether citizens have a moral duty to obey the commands of their state. In this 2005 book, Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons defend opposing answers to this question. Wellman bases his argument on samaritan obligations to perform easy rescues, arguing that each of us has a moral duty to obey the law as his or her fair share of the communal samaritan chore of rescuing our compatriots from the perils of the state of nature. Simmons counters that this, and all other attempts to explain our duty to obey the law, fail. He defends a position of philosophical anarchism, the view that no existing state is legitimate and that there is no strong moral presumption in favor of obedience to, or compliance with, any existing state.

The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation

The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation
Author: George Klosko
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2004-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1461645328

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In The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation, George Klosko presents the first book-length treatment of political obligation grounded in the premises of liberal political theory. In this now-classic work, he clearly and systematically formulates what others thought impossible-a principle of fairness that specifies a set of conditions which grounds existing political obligations and bridges the gap between the abstract accounts of political principles and the actual beliefs of political actors. Brought up-to-date with a new introduction, this new edition will be of great interest to all interested in political thought.

Fairness in Practice

Fairness in Practice
Author: Aaron James
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199846154

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In this book, the author argues that to achieve a fair global economy, there must be compensation of people harmed by their exposure to the global economy, but also equal division of the "gains of trade" across societies.

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674042582

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Previous edition, 1st, published in 1971.

Rawls's Egalitarianism

Rawls's Egalitarianism
Author: Alexander Kaufman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108429114

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A new analysis of John Rawls's theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.

In the Shadow of Justice

In the Shadow of Justice
Author: Katrina Forrester
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691216754

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"In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism--a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state--became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar United States and Britain. In the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Rawls's A Theory of Justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophy. Using archival sources, Forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among American antistatists and British egalitarians. She traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the 1960s and '70s and beyond. In these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right--from the New International Economic Order to the rise of the New Right. These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics. Recasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, In the Shadow of Justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limits."--