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The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited - John Rawls
The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
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The Law of Peoples John Rawls This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than... show more
The Law of Peoples John Rawls This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "Justice as Fairness," presented in A Theory of Justice (1971). The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societiesburdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. John Rawls is James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of A Theory of Justice, Revised Edition (see catalog page 32) and Collected Papers (Harvard). 51Ž2 x 81Ž4 256 pp. ISBN
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780674005426 (0674005422)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
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