John Rawls

Preface 1: Biography 1.1: Family and Schooling 1.2: College and War 1.3: Academic Career 1.4: The Turbulent Decade 1962-1971 1.5: After A Theory of Justice 1.6: The Meaning of Rawls's Project 2: The Focus on the Basic Structure 2.1: The Origin of the Theory 2.2: The Complexity of Modern Sciences 2.3: The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus 2.4: The Scope of the Theory 3: A Top-Tier Criterion of Justice 3.1: Purely Recipient-Oriented Criteria of Justice 3.2: The Anonymity Condition 3.3: Fundamental Interests versus Happiness 4: The Basic Idea: Justice as Fairness 4.1: The Original Position 4.2: Maximin versus Average 4.3: Primary Goods 4.4: The Lexical Priority of the Basic Liberties 5: The First Principle of Justice 5.1: The Structure of a Basic Right 5.2: Formulating the Required Scheme of Basic Rights and Liberties 5.3: The Fair Value of the Basic Political Liberties 5.4: Permissible Reductions of Basic Liberties 5.5: Impermissible Reductions of Basic Liberties 6: The Second Principle of Justice 6.1: The Difference Principle in First Approximation 6.2: The Difference Principle in Detail 6.3: Advocating the Difference Principle in the Original Position 6.4: The Opportunity Principle 6.5: Advocating the Opportunity Principle in the Original Position 6.6: A Property-Owning Democracy 7: A Rawlsian Society 7.1: A Well-Ordered Society 7.2: A Political Conception of Justice 7.3: Political versus Comprehensive Liberalisms 7.4: An Egalitarian Liberal Conception of Justice 7.5: A Society Well-Ordered by Rawls's Conception 7.6: A More Realistic Vision 8: On Justification 8.1: Reflective Equilibrium 8.2: Fundamental Ideas 8.3: Truth and Reasonableness 9: The Reception of Justice as Fairness 9.1: Rawls and Libertarianism 9.2: Rawls and Communitarianism 9.3: Rawls and Kant Conclusion Appendix Index