Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

At the time slightly more faithfully (still: to understand Rawls' later work, one needs to read his Political Liberalism (John Dewey Essays in Philosophy) and, perhaps, also his (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement). Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition–justice as fairness–and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the 19th century. In Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Rawls picks out two regime-types that fulfill the requirements of justice: liberal (democratic) socialism and property-owning democracy. [4] Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, John Rawls, 2001 Harvard University Press edition, pg. Shaw, Barry, and Sansbury (2009) identify justice as fairness which is attributed to the fair treatment to a number of groups of people. It is a fundamental rule pertaining on how to organize the society. In Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Rawls evaluates five types of regimes. He concludes that that only two of these five regimes could, in principle, realize justice. * Rawls, John (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). This is an important theme in the Rawls literature. He expressed these ideas in A Theory of Justice: Original Edition in 1971 and in Justice as Fairness: A Restatement in 2001. This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. Asin 0674005112 Justice as Fairness: A Restatement - Erin Kelly - ecs4.com 24cec56a01f60839425b24dc4310ff65. In Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, Rawls argues that extreme inequalities undermine a democracy by undoing any serious conception of equal citizenship. Justice as Fairness Political not Metaphysical John Rawls JOHN RAWLS Justice as Fairness Political not Metaphysical In this discussion I shall make some general remarks about how I now understand the conception of justice. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement $23.73. John Rawls was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples. Mulgan, Tim (2007) Understanding Utilitarianism (Stocksfield: Acumen).