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Umfang: 1 online resource (360 p.)

ISBN: 9780271056715

Inhalt: Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment—more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls’s so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice’s implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory—a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Preface and Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Acronyms -- , Introduction -- , Part 1: Kantian Affinities -- , 1 Rawls’s Kantianism -- , Part 2: Reconstructing Rawls -- , 2 The Kantian Conception of the Person -- , 3 The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty -- , 4 The Priority of Civil Liberty -- , 5 The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity -- , 6 The Difference Principle -- , Part 3: Kantian Foundations -- , 7 Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person -- , 8 The Poverty of Political Liberalism -- , Conclusion -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

DOI: 10.1515/9780271056715

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271056715

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxiii, 336 p. ) , ill. ;

ISBN: 0-271-05671-1

Originaltitel: Project Muse UPCC books

Inhalt: "Compares the theories of John Rawls and Emmanuel Kant, and offers an internal critique and reconstruction of justice as fairness, reconceiving it as a comprehensive, universalistic Kantian liberalism"--Provided by publisher.

Anmerkung: Rawls's Kantianism -- The Kantian conception of the person -- The priorities of right and political liberty -- The priority of civil liberty -- The priority of fair equality of opportunity -- The difference principle -- Justifying the Kantian conception of the person -- The poverty of political liberalism -- Conclusion: justice as fairness as a universalistic Kantian liberalism.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-271-03771-7

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780271056715