Justice as fairness : a restatement / John Rawls; edited by Erin Kelly.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Pr of Harvard Univ Pr, 2001.

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Justice.

Fairness.

Political science.

Part I. Fundamental ideas: 1. Four roles of political philosophy

2. Society as a fair system of cooperation

3. The Idea of a well-ordered society

4. The Idea of the basic structure

5. Limits to our inquiry

6. The Idea of the original position

7. The Idea of free and equal persons

8. Relations between the fundamental ideas

9. The Idea of public justification

10. The Idea of reflective equilibrium

11. The Idea of an overlapping consensus

Part II. Principles of justice

12. Three basic points

13. The Principles of justice

14. The Problem of distributive justice

15. The Basic structure as subject: first kind of reason

16. The Basic structure as subject: second kind of reason

17. Who are the least advantaged?

18. The Difference principle: its meaning

19. Objections via counterexamples

20. Legitimate expections, entitlement, and desert

21. On viewing native endowments as a common asset

22. Summary comments on distributive justice and desert

Part III. The Argument from the original position

23. The Original position: the set-up

24. The Circumstances of justice

25. Formal constraints and the veil of ignorance

26. The Idea of public reason

27. First fundamental comparison

28. The Structure of the argument and the maximin rule

29. The Argument stressing the third condition

30. The Priority of the basic liberties

31. An objection about aversion to uncertainty

32. The Equal basic liberties revisited

33. The Argument stressinf the second condition

34. Second fundamental comparison: introduction

35. Grounds falling under publicity

36. Grounds falling under reciprocity

37. Grounds falling under stability

38. Grounds against the principle of restricted utility

39. Comments on equality

40. Concluding remarks

Part IV Institutions of a just basic structure

41. Propert-owning democracy: introductory remarks

42. Some basic contrasts between regimes

43. Ideas of the good in justice as fairness

44. Constitutional versus procedural democracy

45. The Fair value of the equal political liberties

46. Denial of the fair value for other basic liberties

47. Political and comprehensive liberalism: a contrast

48. A Note on head taxes and the priority of liberty

49. Economic institutions of a property-owning democracy

50. The Family as a basic institution

51. The Flexibility of an index of primary goods

52. Addressing Marx's critique of liberalism

53. Brief comments on leisure time

Part IV. The Question of stability

54. The Domain of the political

55. The Question of stability

56. Is justice as fairness political in the wrong way?

57. How is political liberalism possible?

58. An Overlapping consensus not Utopian

59. A Reasonable moral strategy

60. The Good of political society.

Includes index.

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