Reconstructing Rawls the Kantian foundations of justice as fairness

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Author:

Taylor, Robert S., 1968-

ISBN:

9780271053622

Personal Author:

Taylor, Robert S., 1968-

Publication Information:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Physical Description:

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

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Contents:

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.

Abstract:

"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.

Personal Subject:

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804-Political and social views.

Rawls, John, 1921-2002.

Subject Term:

Justice.

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Electronic books.

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Project Muse.

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