Why Political Liberalism? - On John Rawls's Political Turn

Zusatztext not only a convincing rebuttal of the standard story ... but more importantly, a detailed reconstruction of the parts of the argument Rawls ultimately found to be wanting, the flaws Rawls discovered there, and the ways that the pieces of the later work serve to fix those problems. ... Weithman's reconstruction of both the original argument in A Theory of Justice and the later, political, replacement, are masterpieces of close, almost scholastic, exegesis. Informationen zum Autor Paul Weithman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Klappentext Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called political turn. Zusammenfassung Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn." Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Tables Introduction 1. The Public Basis of View 2. Stability and Congruence 3. Ideals and Inconsistency 4. The Acquisition of Four Desires 5. Thin Reasons to be Just 6. The Argument from Love and Justice 7. Kantian Congruence and the Unified Self 8. The Great Unraveling 9. The Political Ideals of Justice as Fairness 10. Comprehensive Reasons to be Just Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Paul Weithman, Paul (Professor of Philosophy Weithman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780199970940
• ISBN: 978-0-19-997094-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Oxford Political Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education