Introduction: The Practice of Political Justification -- Scope and diversity -- Justificatory success and motivational adequacy -- Perfectionism, Pragmatism and Constructivism -- Constructivism in Rawls -- Ideal theory: structure and issues -- Persons, society and value in ideal theory -- The burdens of judgement, motivational adequacy and demandingness -- Self-Respect -- Self-respect: standards and success -- Self-respect and the Stepford Wives -- Rawlsian self-respect -- Reasoning about Justice -- Self-respect and practical reason -- Practical reason for justice-seekers -- Self-respect, civility and public reason -- Many flowers: demandingness revisited -- The Social Bases of Self-Respect -- Taxonomy -- Framework resources I: equal liberty -- Framework resources II: income and wealth
Cover -- Liberalism and the Defence of Political Constructivism -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Practice of Political Justification -- 2 Constructivism in Rawls -- 3 Self-Respect -- 4 Reasoning about Justice -- 5 The Social Bases of Self-Respect -- Concluding Review -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Contemporary liberal political justification is often accused of preaching to the converted: liberal principles are acceptable only to people already committed to liberal values. Catriona McKinnon addresses this important criticism by arguing that self-respect and its social conditions should be placed at the heart of the liberal approach to justification. A commitment to self-respect delivers a commitment to the liberal values of toleration and public reason, but self-respect itself is not an exclusively liberal value
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