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Rawls' A Theory of Justice is generally considered as the most commanding work of our century, for it is believed that it has awakened political philosophy from its long time slumber. The acclaim Rawls' work has won is indeed enormous even among its critics. For instance, Robert Nozick, whose disagreement with Rawls is quite profound, acknowledges the tribute that contemporary political philosophy owes to Rawls' theory of justice when he says "political philosophers now must either work within Rawls' theory or explain why not." While sharing this appraisal in a certain sense, this book attempts to explain why we should not agree with Rawls' theory of justice in general and his conception of pluralism, in particular, which it takes to be the central issue of Rawls' moral and political philosophy as a whole. The book is, however, not only critical but also rectifying in that it tries to provide an alternative perspective. ... Read more

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Great book
Everybody should read this book if you believe in ethics and justice.Congratulations to Amazon for the opportunity to offer this and others fine books to the people in a safe and secure way to purchase. I suggest more titles in your library catalog. ... Read more

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This guide is a clearly written, in-depth analysis of John Rawls's deliberative democracy theory. Covering such important concepts as the idea of public reason and the politicised public sphere, it is an invaluable guide for students of political science or for anyone has an interest in current democratic thought. ... Read more

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In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of Rawls's recent work, "The Idea of Political Liberalism" will be indispensable for political philosophers and theorists interested in contemporary political thought. ... Read more

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Scott Hershovitz-America's one to watch in the future!
This is a rare oppertunity to read the writing of a future leader of our country. Hershovitz is a Rhodes scholar with a bright future. Buy this book and you can say you knew him before he was famous. Fascinating reading.

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Rhodes Scholar Scott Hershovitz really hits home with his essay. He isbrilliant.

Essential Reading on the Later Rawls
THE IDEA OF A POLITICAL LIBERALISM contains 14 essays-- manyby leadingscholars-- critically examining the recent work of John Rawls. This is thefirst collection of its kind, and is essential reading for anyoneinterested in Rawls's"political, not metaphysical"interpretation of justice as fairness. Topics include: the distinctionbetween reasonable and unreasonable persons and comprehensive doctrines,public reason and religious commitment, Rawls's idea of an"overlapping consensus," and the implications of politicalliberalism for constitutional and international law.A must read for anyserious student of current political philosophy. ... Read more

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Relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the California gold rush. ... Read more

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"Dame Shirley" as a Gold Rush Source
Jim Rawls's book is a wonderful resource for children to study the reality of the typical mining town from heyday to ghost town.It includes a general description of the hardships endured by the miners as well as several examples of the effects of prejudice (and too much whiskey!) on the many "foreign" miners.I would have liked to see a few more direct quotes from the Dame Shirley letters, but the information is given using age-appropriate language and length.Definitely worth the time to read. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: John Forbes Nash Jr., Peter Singer, John Rawls, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Thomas Mann, Joschka Fischer, Hannah Arendt, Wolfgang Pauli, Toni Morrison, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Thomas S. Kuhn, Ralph Nader, Hermann Weyl, André Weil, Woodrow Wilson, Riccardo Giacconi, Alonzo Church, Chen Ning Yang, Owen Willans Richardson, Philip W. Anderson, Richard Bellman, Paul Krugman, Gerd Faltings, Albert Einstein, Donald Davidson, George F. Kennan, Andreas Alföldi, Haruki Murakami, Philip Roth, Hans Jonas, Henry De Wolf Smyth, Julian Jaynes, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Richard Rorty, Ernst Herzfeld, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Michael Walzer, James Mark Baldwin, Erwin Panofsky, Martin Rudwick, Arno J. Mayer, Joyce Carol Oates, Soner Çağaptay, John Archibald Wheeler, Eugene Paul Wigner, Ernst Kantorowicz, Stephen Walt, Solomon Lefschetz, Armand Borel, Jacob Taubes, Ruth Klüger, Lewis Lockwood, Marlan Scully, Sanford Grossman, Atle Selberg, Emil Artin, Kenneth Burke, Werner Michael Blumenthal, Arne Beurling, Alexandre Koyré, Margarete Bieber, Ben Bernanke, Alexander Stephan, William J. Baumol, Peter Dinzelbacher, Andrew Wiles, Albert Otto Hirschman, Alexander Markowitsch Poljakow, Bruce Metzger, Harold James, David Gross, Manjul Bhargava, Peter Schäfer, Peter P. Kahane, Carl Gustav Hempel, Yves Bonnefoy, John Willard Milnor, Cornel West, Gerald Brown, Edmund White, Salomon Bochner, Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Witten, Frederick Almgren, Elliott Lieb, Otto Kallscheuer, Abba Eban, Robert O. Keohane, Enrique Tierno Galván, Anthony Grafton, Peter Brown, Thomas Nagel, Joseph Wedderburn, Kodaira Kunihiko, Saul Aaron Kripke, Edward Tufte, Donald E. Stokes, Martin Kruskal, Nicolas...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=8024 ... Read more

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CARLOS THIEBAUT: El liberalismo político es la segunda gran aportación de Rawls a la filosofía política. Escrito veinte años después de Una teoría de la justicia, replantea
las tesis que centraron el libro anterior. En estas páginas, Carlos Thiebaut estudia las complejas relaciones entre ambos textos. Y Antoni Domènech,
experto en Rawls y traductor de El liberalismo político, abre una perspectiva crítica sobre la «nueva» y «vieja» filosofía rawlsiana.

Un articulo sobre: JOHN RAWLS El liberalismo político Traducción de Antoni Domènech
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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Immanuel Kant, Robert Nozick, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Rawls, John Mcdowell, Thomas Nagel, P. F. Strawson, Wilfrid Sellars, James Creed Meredith, Simion Bărnuţiu, Hans Vaihinger, John Henry Bernard, Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Christine Korsgaard, John E. Hare, Feliks Jaroński, Friedrich Karl Forberg, Johann Heinrich Abicht. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: ) (22 April 1724 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Kant created a new perspective in philosophy which had widespread influences on philosophy continuing through to the 21st century. He published important works on epistemology, as well as works relevant to religion, law, and history. One of his most prominent works is the Critique of Pure Reason, an investigation into the limitations and structure of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the Critique of Practical Reason, which concentrates on ethics, and the Critique of Judgment, which investigates aesthetics and teleology. Kant suggested that metaphysics can be reformed through epistemology. He suggested that by understanding the sources and limits of human knowledge we can ask fruitful metaphysical questions. He asked if an object can be known to have certain properties prior to the experience of that object. He concluded that all objects about which the mind can think must conform to its ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14631 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on September 22, 1998. The length of the article is 7570 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The political liberalism of John Rawls offers a problematic response to theocracy. Rawls believes the political order must not be bound to one religious conception, must be open to disagreements about the common good, but must also form a political policy around which all parties can form a consensus. His theory, however, does not contain a specific answer to the theocrat's notion that the soul's salvation is the most important truth upon which public policy is formed. The common point between Rawls and the theocrat between is the belief in the importance of choice to achieve human good.

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Title: Rawls and the challenge of theocracy to freedom. (political liberalism of John Rawls)
Author: Robert B. Thigpen
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 40Issue: 4Page: 757(1)

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Title: God and John Rawls.('A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith')(Book review)
Author: Peter Berkowitz
Publication: Policy Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Issue: 155Page: 83(8)

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Title: Soziale Gerechtigkeit zwischen Fairness und Partizipation: John Rawls und die katholische Soziallehre.(Book review)
Author: Kerstin Schlogl-Flierl
Publication: Theological Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Theological Studies, Inc.
Volume: 70Issue: 3Page: 715(2)

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Chapters: John Dewey, Robert Nozick, John C. Calhoun, Kenneth Arrow, William H. Riker, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, James M. Buchanan, Lysander Spooner, Leo Strauss, Michael Parenti, Ronald Dworkin, Russell Kirk, Roger Masters, Spencer Heath, Amy Gutmann, Andrew Moravcsik, Thomas Pangle, Walt Whitman Rostow, William E. Connolly, Michael Walzer, Steven Levitsky, Robert A. Dahl, Mark Stephen Jendrysik, Graham Fuller, David Prychitko, Michael J. Shapiro, Charles E. Lindblom, Cynthia Enloe, Sheldon Wolin, Judith N. Shklar, Allan Gibbard, Benjamin Barber, Anne Norton, Francis Coker, Richard E. Flathman, Bruce Ackerman, Iris Marion Young, John Roemer, Bonnie Honig, Nancy Fraser, Josiah Ober, Thomas R. Dye, Ian Shapiro, David Schmidtz, Jonathan Pool, A.f.k. Organski, Corey Robin, Peter Stillman, James David Barber, David Kolb, John Schaar, Joseph Cropsey, William Galston, Michael Taylor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 344. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Dewey (October 20, 1859 June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics. In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elementsschools and civil societyas being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage exper...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16187 ... Read more