Reconstructing Rawls [electronic resource] : the Kantian foundations of justice as fairness / Robert S. Taylor.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 336 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780271053622
- 0271053623
- 320.01/1 22
- JC578 .T39 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
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