@article{1478671,
      recid = {1478671},
      author = {Rawls, John,  and Freeman, Samuel, },
      title = {Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy /},
      pages = {1 online resource (496 p.)},
      abstract = {This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from  written lectures and notes for his long-running course on  modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of  the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by  many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the  philosophy behind that tradition. Rawls's goal in the  lectures was, he wrote, "to identify the more central  features of liberalism as expressing a political conception  of justice when liberalism is viewed from within the  tradition of democratic constitutionalism." He does this by  looking at several strands that make up the liberal and  democratic constitutional traditions, and at the historical  figures who best represent these strands-among them the  contractarians Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau; the  utilitarians Hume, Sidgwick, and J. S. Mill; and Marx  regarded as a critic of liberalism. Rawls's lectures on  Bishop Joseph Butler also are included in an appendix.  Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's  lectures on these figures reflect his developing and  changing views on the history of liberalism and  democracy-as well as how he saw his own work in relation to  those traditions. With its clear and careful analyses of  the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and  socialism-and of their most influential proponents-this  volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.  Marked by Rawls's characteristic patience and curiosity,  and scrupulously edited by his student and teaching  assistant, Samuel Freeman, these lectures are a fitting  final addition to his oeuvre, and to the history of  political philosophy as well.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478671},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042568},
}