Collected Papers: John Rawls

671 Pages·1999·3.403 MB·English

by  John Rawls

John Rawls: Collected Papers

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O H N AW L S
Collected Papers
Edited by Samuel Freeman
Harvard University Press
Cambridge,Massachusetts
London,England
1999
Copyright ©1999bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvard College
All rightsreserved
Printedin theUnitedStatesof America
Library of CongressCataloging-in-Publication Data
Rawls, John, 1921–
[Selections. 1999]
Collected papers / John Rawls;editedby SamuelFreeman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographicalreferencesand index.
ISBN 0-674-13739-6(alk.paper)
1. Justice. I.Freeman, SamuelRichard. II. Title.
JC578.R36925 1999
3209.0191—dc21 98-55932
Formymanygraduatestudentsandcolleagues,
whohaveplayedsuchanimportantroleinthedevelopmentofmyideas

Contents
Editor’sPreface ix
1 OutlineofaDecisionProcedureforEthics 1
2 TwoConceptsofRules 20
3 JusticeasFairness 47
4 ConstitutionalLibertyandtheConceptofJustice 73
5 TheSenseofJustice 96
6 LegalObligationandtheDutyofFairPlay 117
7 DistributiveJustice 130
8 DistributiveJustice:SomeAddenda 154
9 TheJustificationofCivilDisobedience 176
10 JusticeasReciprocity 190
11 SomeReasonsfortheMaximinCriterion 225
12 ReplytoAlexanderandMusgrave 232
13 AKantianConceptionofEquality 254
14 FairnesstoGoodness 267
15 TheIndependenceofMoralTheory 286
16 KantianConstructivisminMoralTheory 303
17 SocialUnityandPrimaryGoods 359
18 JusticeasFairness:PoliticalnotMetaphysical 388
19 PrefacefortheFrenchEditionofATheoryofJustice 415
20 TheIdeaofanOverlappingConsensus 421
21 ThePriorityofRightandIdeasoftheGood 449
22 TheDomainofthePoliticalandOverlappingConsensus 473
Contents
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23 ThemesinKant’sMoralPhilosophy 497
24 TheLawofPeoples 529
25 FiftyYearsafterHiroshima 565
26 TheIdeaofPublicReasonRevisited 573
27 CommonwealInterviewwithJohnRawls 616
Credits 623
Index 629
Editor’s Preface
JohnRawls’sATheoryofJusticeisoneofthemostin_uentialworksinmoral
and political philosophy written in the twentieth century.1 Twenty years in
the making, it was preceded by a series of papers treating many of its major
themes (Chapters 1–10 of this volume). Rawls’s Political Liberalism has a
less extended but more complex period of development,2 beginning with
the1980DeweyLecturesatColumbiaUniversity(Chapter16)andextending
through a series of papers written during that decade (Chapters 17–18 and
20–22).
Rawls has often said that he sees these papers as experimental works, op-
portunities to try out ideas that later may be developed, revised, or aban-
doned in his books. For this reason he has long been reluctant to permit
the publication of his collected papers in book form. The advice and en-
couragement of his close friends and colleagues ~nally persuaded him oth-
erwise.
Thiscollectioncontains nearlyallofRawls’spublishedpapers.Thepapers
are arranged according to the year of their original publication. Among the
papers not included are three papers already republished as Part III of the
paperbackeditionofPoliticalLiberalism.3Alsoomittedareearlierversionsof
1.ATheoryofJustice(Cambridge,Mass.:HarvardUniversityPress,1971).
2.PoliticalLiberalism(New York: ColumbiaUniversityPress,1993;paperbackedition,1996).
3.PartIIIofPoliticalLiberalismincludes:“TheBasicStructureasSubject,”firstpublishedin
ValuesandMorals,ed.AlanGoldmanandJaegwonKim(Dordrecht,1978)pp.47–71,itselfa
substantial revision of a paper with the same title read before the meetings of the American
PhilosophicalAssociation(PacificDivision,1977),andpublishedintheAmericanPhilosophical
Quarterly, 14 (April 1977); “The Basic Liberties and Their Priority,” The Tanner Lectures on
HumanValues,ed.SterlingMcMurrin(SaltLakeCity:UniversityofUtahPress,1983),pp.3–87;
and,inthepaperbackeditiononly,“ReplytoHabermas,”TheJournalofPhilosophy,92:3(March
1995).
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