1993 English-language nonfiction book by John Rawls
This article is about the book by John Rawls. For the political philosophy, see Liberalism.
Political Liberalism
Cover of the first edition
Author
John Rawls
Cover artist
Carin Goldberg
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Political philosophy
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
1993
2005
Media type
Print (hardcover · paperback)
Pages
435
576
ISBN
978-0-231-13089-9
Dewey Decimal
320.51 22
LC Class
JC578 .R37 2005
Political Liberalism is a 1993 book by the American philosopher John Rawls,[1] an update to his earlier A Theory of Justice (1971). In it, he attempts to show that his theory of justice is not a "comprehensive conception of the good" but is instead compatible with a liberal conception of the role of justice, namely, that government should be neutral between competing conceptions of the good. Rawls tries to show that his two principles of justice, properly understood, form a "theory of the right" (as opposed to a theory of the good) which would be supported by all reasonable individuals, even under conditions of reasonable pluralism. The mechanism by which he demonstrates this is called "overlapping consensus". Here he also develops his idea of public reason.
An expanded edition of the book was published in 2005. It includes an added introduction, the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" (1997) – some 60 pages – and an index to the new material.[1]
^ abJohn Rawls (1993 [2005]). Political Liberalism. Description, table of contents as linked at Contents, and selected pages from the introductions and after. New York:Columbia University Press.
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