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John Rawls : reticent socialist

By: Edmundson, William A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UK : Cambridge University Press , 2017Description: 212 pages.ISBN: 9781107173194; 1107173191; 9781316625774; 131662577X.Subject(s): Rawls, John, 1921-2002 -- Political and social views | Justice | Political stability | LAW -- Jurisprudence | Liberalism | Political stability | philosophyDDC classification: 320.01
Contents:
Conceptions of property in the original position -- Property-owning democracy versus liberal socialism -- Fair value and the fact of domination -- The four-stage sequence -- The circumstances of politics -- Rescuing the difference principle -- The special psychologies -- Socialism and stability -- The common content of the two regimes -- The property question -- Religion and reticence -- Non-ideal theory : the transition to socialism.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.

Introduction -- Conceptions of property in the original position -- Property-owning democracy versus liberal socialism -- Fair value and the fact of domination -- The four-stage sequence -- The circumstances of politics -- Rescuing the difference principle -- The special psychologies -- Socialism and stability -- The common content of the two regimes -- The property question -- Religion and reticence -- Non-ideal theory : the transition to socialism.

"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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