J. Donald Moon

John Rawls

Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Donald Moon's John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls' life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politics-the state.

Produktdetails

• Modernity and Political Thought
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781442238275
• ISBN-10: 1442238275
• Artikelnr.: 40788727

Autorenporträt

J. Donald Moon is the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: Challenges to Liberalism Chapter Two: Political
Liberalism: Justice as Social Cooperation 1. Justice as grounded in
comprehensive doctrines 2. Political conceptions of justice 3. Political
liberalism 4. Justice as Fairness 5. Conclusion Chapter Three: Public
Reason and Inclusion 1 Restraint and privatization 2 The need for consensus
3 The question of priority 4 Toleration and exclusion Chapter Four: Class,
Inequality, and Distributive Justice 1 Egalitarian liberalism 2 Incentives
and inequality 3 Pluralism and social justice 4 Merit and desert Chapter
Five: Global Pluralism and International Justice 1 Rawls's Law of Peoples 2
Inclusiveness of the society of peoples 3 Peoples vs persons 4.
Globalization, democracy and domestic basic structures 5 Conclusion:
justice and global inequality Chapter Six: Conclusion