TY  - BOOK
N2  - This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.
AB  - This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). Rawls offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. He is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.
T1  - Justice as fairness :a restatement /
DA  - 2001.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Rawls, John,
AU  - Kelly, Erin.
CN  - JC578
CN  - JC578
PB  - Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 2001.
ID  - 275573
KW  - Justice.
KW  - Fairness.
SN  - 0674005112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0674005104 (alk. paper)
TI  - Justice as fairness :a restatement /
ER  -