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Liberalism, libertarianism, and economic justice -- Capitalism in the classical and high liberal traditions -- Illiberal libertarians : why libertarianism is not a liberal view -- Distributive justice and the difference principle -- Rawls on distributive justice and the difference principle -- Property-owning democracy and the difference principle -- Private law and Rawls's principles of justice -- Liberal institutions and distributive justice -- The social and institutional bases of distributive justice -- The basic structure of society as the primary subject of justice -- Ideal theory and the justice of institutions -- Constructivism, facts, and moral justification

This volume of essays addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary political philosophy, from the different branches of liberalism and their relation to capitalism, to the basic institutions of a liberal society that underwrite political and economic justice

"Samuel Freeman is one of Rawls's foremost interpreters. This volume contains nine of his essays on Rawls and Rawlsian justice, two of which are previously unpublished. Freeman places Bawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, addresses criticisms of his positions, and discusses the implications of his views on issues of distributive justice, liberalism and democracy, international justice, and other subjects. This collection will be useful to the wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and theories of justice."--Jacket

Seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1995 hat John Rawls an der Harvard University regelmäßig eine Lehrveranstaltung mit dem Titel »Politische Philosophie der Neuzeit« angeboten. Dabei diskutierte er seine eigenen theoretischen Entwürfe, ergriff aber zugleich immer wieder die Gelegenheit, seine Ansichten zur Philosophie des Politischen und des Sozialen mit denen seiner Vorläufer in Beziehung zu setzen: mit den Vertragstheoretikern Hobbes, Locke und Rousseau, den Utilitaristen Hume und Mill sowie mit Marx als dem in vieler Hinsicht interessantesten Kritiker des klassischen Liberalismus. Der Band versammelt Rawls' große Vorlesungen zu diesen Klassikern und bietet die seltene Gelegenheit, die Geschichte der politischen Philosophie mit den Augen eines ihrer herausragenden zeitgenössischen Vertreter zu lesen.

This work brings together 14 papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which philosopher Thomas Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a distinctive and independent position while critically engaging with central themes from Scanlon's own work in the area