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This illuminating guide covers the most interesting and important aspects of Rawls'' work in a stimulating manner, highlighting the foundations that underlie his conception of Justice, and explaining the rationale for his famous starting point, The Veil of Ignorance. Also detailing the criticisms that have met his arguments, this study will prove essential reading for students, scholars, and interested readers alike.

1. The primacy of justice -- 2. Constructing the principles of justice -- 3. Defending democratic equality : the argument from the original position -- 4. Pluralism and political consensus : the argument for political liberalism -- 5. A reasonable law of peoples for a real world.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- I Theorizing Justice -- 1 Institutions and the Demands of Justice -- 2 The Claims of Reflective Equilibrium -- 3 Constructing Justice for Existing Practice -- 4 Justice, Desert, and Ideal Theory -- 5 Rawls, Hegel, and Communitarianism -- II What Justice Demands -- 6 Equality of What: Welfare, Resources, or Capabilities? -- 7 Rawls's Defense of the Priority of Liberty: A Kantian Reconstruction -- 8 Equal Liberty for All? -- 9 Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality -- 10 The Revisionist Difference Principle -- 11 Just Savings and the Difference Principle -- 12 What is Egalitarianism? -- 13 Justice and Gender: An Unfinished Debate -- III A Political Liberalism -- 14 A More Democratic Liberalism -- 15 Disagreements About Justice -- 16 The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism -- 17 What is reasonableness? -- 18 Religious Citizens within the Limits of Public Reason -- 19 The completeness of public reason -- 20 Critical Notice -- 21 The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice -- Name Index

Rawls on constitutionalism and constitutional law / Frank I. Michelman -- Rawls and the law / Ronald Dworkin -- Are there limits to constitutional change? : Rawls on comprehensive doctrines, unconstitutional amendments, and the basis of equality / Charles A. Kelbley -- A backdoor to policy making : the use of philosophers by the Supreme Court / Neomi Rao -- Does philosophy deserve a place at the Supreme Court? / Thom Brooks -- Immigration, association, and the family / Matthew Lister -- Political liberalism / Michael J. Sandel -- The subject of liberalism / Frank I. Michelman -- Some problems with public reason in John Rawls's Political liberalism / Kent Greenawalt -- Can a liberal take his own side in an argument? : the case for John Rawls's idea of political liberalism / Ronald C. Den Otter -- On belling the cat : Rawls and tort as corrective justice / Kevin A. Kordana and David H. Tabachnick -- Private order and public justice : Kant and Rawls / Arthur Ripstein -- Rawls and reparation / Martin D. Carcieri -- From Utopia to Kazanistan : John Rawls and the law of peoples / John Tasioulas -- The incoherence between Rawls's theories of justice / Thomas W. Pogge -- Why Rawls is not a cosmopolitan egalitarian / Leif Wenar -- Preventing military humanitarian intervention? : John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on a just global order / Regina Kreide -- Human rights and liberal toleration / David Reidy.