Political Liberalism. (book reviews)

John Rawls, the outstanding political philosopher of the century, has here compiled, mostly in considerably revised form, the lectures that contain his thinking about justice since A Theory of Justice (1971). In that most influential book, he presented an account of social contract theory in which principles of social justice are arrived at by people thinking in an "original position"--in which they have no knowledge of particulars about themselves, their values and attachments, or their situation in the prospective just society.

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