Table of Contents
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
1: From Philosophical Theology to Democratic Theory: Early Postcards from an Intellectual Journey
2. The Philosophical Theology of the Undergraduate Thesis
4. From Ethics as Science to Moral Philosophy
5. From Moral Philosophy to Democratic Theory
2: Does Justice as Fairness Have a Religious Aspect?
1. What Does Rawls Think Gives a View a Religious Aspect?
2. Moral Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
3. What Gives Kant's View a Religious Aspect?
4. Justice as Fairness Has a Religious Aspect
5. Does Political Liberalism Have a Religious Aspect?
The Trajectory of Rawls's Thought
The Moral Point of Reflective Equilibrium
1. The Received History of the Dewey Lectures
2. Constructivism before the Dewey Lectures
3. Constructivism in the Dewey Lectures
4. Constructivism after the Dewey Lectures
5: The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of Justice
1. The Primacy of the Basic Structure – What It Means
2. The Social Nature of Human Relationships and the Profound Influence of Basic Social Institutions
3. The Basic Structure and the Ideals of Persons and Society
4. Distributive Justice and the Importance of Background Justice
5. Clarifications, Objections, and Responses
6: Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory
3. What Is Ideal Theory Good For?
4. Should Ideal Theory Set the Target? Should It Set Priorities?
5. Is Ideal Theory Too Utopian?
6. Is Ideal Theory Too Concessive to Human Nature?
7. Ideal Theory, Nonideal Theory and Action Guidance
7: The Choice from the Original Position
2. Three Arguments for the Priority of Liberty in Theory
3. A Kantian Reconstruction of the Hierarchy Argument
4. The Special Status of the Political Liberties
5. Conclusion: Implications for the American Practice of Civil Libertarianism
9: Applying Justice as Fairness to Institutions
Institutional Design, the Four-Stage Sequence and Pluralism
The Basic Liberties and Democratic Institutions
Fair Equality of Opportunity: Education, Health and Employment
The Economy and the Difference Principle
10: Democratic Equality as a Work-in-Progress
1. What Is Democratic Equality?
11: Stability, a Sense of Justice, and Self-Respect
1. Stability, Its Role, and Rawls's Two Lines of Argument: A Brief Summary
2. Moral Psychology and a Sense of Justice
3. Self-Respect and the Kantian Interpretation
4. Values Not Lost in the Move to Political Liberalism
12: Political Authority, Civil Disobedience, Revolution
1. Political Authority and the Duty to Support Just Institutions
2. A Just Constitutional Regime
3. Justifiable Noncompliance: Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Refusal
Part IV: A Political Conception
13: The Turn to a Political Liberalism
1. The Original Position and Stability in Theory: The Argumentative Structure
2. Stability in Theory: The Substantive Appeal to the Thin Theory
3. “The Fact of Reasonable Pluralism”
4. Shallow Political Liberalism: Reasonable Pluralism of the Good
5. Deep Political Liberalism: Reasonable Pluralism of the Right
Conceptions of Practical Reason
Justification Rather Than Determination
15: On the Idea of Public Reason
1. The Practice of Public Reason
1. Introduction: Overlapping Consensus
3. Overlapping Consensus: Stability or Public Political Justification
4. Utilitarianism and Overlapping Consensus
17: Citizenship as Fairness: John Rawls's Conception of Civic Virtue
Virtue, Friendship, and Social Concord
Assessing Rawlsian Civic Virtue
18: Inequality, Difference, and Prospects for Democracy
Part V: Extending Political Liberalism: International Relations
A Very Brief Intellectual History
The Law of Peoples in the Greater Scheme of Rawls's Work
2. Rawls's Law of Peoples: Some Essential Orienting Background
3. Rawls on Human Rights: Some Exposition and Discussion of Key Passages
5. The Functions of Human Rights and the “List Question”: A Deeper Analysis
6. Some Areas for Further Reflection
21: Global Poverty and Global Inequality
Rawls's Grounds for Nonextrapolation
The Cosmopolitanism of Equality and the Original Position
Goals and Burdens of Assistance
Part VI: Conversations with Other Perspectives
23: Rawls, Mill, and Utilitarianism
2. Mill's Utilitarianism: Rawls's Interpretation
3. Against Rawls's Interpretation
24: Perfectionist Justice and Rawlsian Legitimacy
2. The Diversity of Perfectionist Justice
3. The Principle of Liberal Legitimacy
4. A Brief Note on the Burdens of Judgment
25: The Unwritten Theory of Justice: Rawlsian Liberalism versus Libertarianism
1. Constructing the Choice Position
26: The Young Marx and the Middle-Aged Rawls
1. The Standard Marxian Criticism
2. From Each/To Each and the Two Principles
7. The Problem of Alienated Labor
27: Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny
Containing Unavoidable Injustice
Ideal Contracts, Original Positions, and Hypothetical Agreements
Principles for Individual Self-Defense in a War on Women
28: Critical Theory and Habermas
2. Immanent Critique and the Primacy of Practices
3. The Habermas/Rawls Exchange: On the Relation between Justice and Democracy
4. Conclusion: The Public Role and Character of Philosophy; Religion in the Public Square
Rawls and the History of Economics
Subjective Preferences and Primary Goods
30: Learning from the History of Political Philosophy
The Questions of Political Philosophy
The Roles of Political Philosophy
The Independence of Political Philosophy
Rawls in the Social Contract Tradition
Rawls in the History of Liberalism
What Rawls Learned from Some of the Greats
Interpreting Rawls Using Rawls's Interpretations of the Exemplars
Rawls in the History of Political Philosophy
31: Rawls and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Cases of Smith and Kant