Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls's Political Turn
Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls's Political Turn
- ISBN 13:
9780199970940
- ISBN 10:
0199970947
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/01/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls's attempts to show that a just society would be stable, and just as carefully shows why Rawls came to think those arguments were inconsistent with other parts of his theory. Weithman then shows that the changes Rawls introduced into his view between "Theory of Justice" and "Political Liberalism" result from his attempt to remove the inconsistency and show that the hazard of the generalized prisoner's dilemma can be averted after all. Recovering Rawls's two treatments of stability helps to answer contested questions about the role of the original position and the foundations of justice as fairness. The result is a powerful and unified reading of Rawls's work that explains his political turn and shows his enduring engagement with some of the deepest concerns of human life.