"Political Liberalism: Expanded Edition" by John Rawls (Repost)

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"Political Liberalism: Expanded Edition" by John Rawls
Columbia classics in philosophy
Columbia University Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0231130899 9780231130899 9780231527538 | 309/525 pages | PDF/epub/mobi | 2/1 MB

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justicebut changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.

Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines – religious, philosophical, and moral – coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay

Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
PART ONE - Political Liberalism: Basic Elements
LECTURE 1 - Fundamental Ideas
§ 1. Addressing Two Fundamental Questions
§ 2. The Idea of a Political Conception of Justice
§ 3. The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation
§ 4. The Idea of the Original Position
§ 5. The Political Conception of the Person
§ 6. The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society
§ 7. Neither a Community nor an Association
§ 8. On the Use of Abstract Conceptions
LECTURE II - Powers of Citizens and Their Representation
§ 1. The Reasonable and the Rational
§ 2. The Burdens of Judgment
§ 3. Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines
§ 4. The Publicity Condition: Its Three Levels
§ 5. Rational Autonomy: Artificial not Political
§ 6. Full Autonomy: Political not Ethical
§ 7. The Basis of Moral Motivation in the Person
§ 8. Moral Psychology: Philosophical not Psychological
LECTURE III - Political Constructivism
§ 1. The Idea of a Constructivist Conception
§ 2. Kant’s Moral Constructivism
§ 3. Justice as Fairness as a Constructivist View
§ 4. Role of Conceptions of Society and Person
§ 5. Three Conceptions of Objectivity
§ 6. Objectivity Independent of the Causal View of Knowledge
§ 7. When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking?
§ 8: The Scope of Political Constructivism
PART TWO - Political Liberalism: Three Main Ideas
LECTURE IV - The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus
§ 1. How Is Political Liberalism Possible?
§ 2. The Question of Stability
§ 3. Three Features of an Overlapping Consensus
§ 4. An Overlapping Consensus not Indifferent or Skeptical
§ 5. A Political Conception Need not be Comprehensive
§ 6. Steps to Constitutional Consensus
§ 7. Steps to Overlapping Consensus
§ 8. Conception and Doctrines: How Related?
LECTURE V - The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good
§ 1. How a Political Conception Limits Conceptions of the Good
§ 2. Goodness as Rationality
§ 3. Primary Goods and Interpersonal Comparisons
§ 4. Primary Goods as Citizens’ Needs
§ 5. Permissible Conceptions of the Good and Political Virtues
§ 6. Is Justice as Fairness Fair to Conceptions of the Good?
§ 7. The Good of Political Society
§ 8. That Justice as Fairness is Complete
LECTURE VI - The Idea of Public Reason
§ 1. The Questions and Forums of Public Reason
§ 2. Public Reason and the Ideal of Democratic Citizenship
§ 3. Nonpublic Reasons
§ 4. The Content of Public Reason
§ 5. The Idea of Constitutional Essentials
§ 6. The Supreme Court as Exemplar of Public Reason
§ 7. Apparent Difficulties with Public Reason
§ 8. The Limits of Public Reason
LECTURE VII - The Basic Structure as Subject
§1. First Subject of Justice
§ 2. Unity by Appropriate Sequence
§ 3. Libertarianism Has No Special Role for the Basic Structure
§ 4. The Importance of Background Justice
§ 5. How the Basic Structure Affects Individuals
§ 6. Initial Agreement as Hypothetical and Nonhistorical
§ 7. Special Features of the Initial Agreement
§ 8. The Social Nature of Human Relationships
§ 9. Ideal Form for the Basic Structure
§ 10. Reply to Hegel’s Criticism
LECTURE VIII - The Basic Liberties and Their Priority
§ 1. The Initial Aim of justice as Fairness
§ 2. The Special Status of Basic Liberties
§ 3. Conceptions of Person and Social Cooperation
§ 4. The Original Position
§ 5. Priority of Liberties, I: Second Moral Power
§ 6. Priority of Liberties, II: First Moral Power
§ 7. Basic Liberties not Merely Formal
§ 8. A Fully Adequate Scheme of Basic Liberties
§ 9. How Liberties Fit into One Coherent Scheme
§ 10. Free Political Speech
§ 11. The Clear and Present Danger Rule
§ 12. Maintaining the Fair Value of Political Liberties
§ 13. Liberties Connected with the Second Principle
§ 14. The Role of Justice as Fairness
LECTURE IX - Reply to Habermas
§ I. Two Main Differences
§ 2. Overlapping Consensus and Justification
§ 3. Liberties of the Moderns Versus the Will of the People
§4. The Roots of the Liberties
§5. Procedural Versus Substantive Justice
§ 6. Conclusion
PART FOUR - The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
Introduction to “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited: (1997)
§ 1. The Idea of Public Reason
§ 2. The Content of Public Reason
§ 3. Religion and Public Reason in Democracy
§ 4. The Wide View of Public Political Culture
§ 5. On the Family as Part of the Basic Structure
§ 6. Questions about Public Reason
§ 7. Conclusion
Index
Index to the New Material
Copyright Page
PART THREE - Institutional Framework

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About:
John Rawls, professor of philosophy at Harvard University, had published a number of articles on the concept of justice as fairness before the appearance of his magnum opus, A Theory of Justice (1971).