Justice and the Social Contract Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy [Paperback]

Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' foremost interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position. Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is an excellent thinker in his own right, and these articles will be useful to a wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and the expanse of his influence.

Introduction
Part One: A Theory of Justice
1. Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views
2. Utilitarian, Deontology, and the Priority of Right
3. Consequentialist, Publicity, Stability, and Property-Owning Democracy
4. Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism
5. Congruence and the Good Justice
Part Two: Political Liberalism
6. Political Liberalism and the Possibility of a Just Democratic Constitution
7. Public Reason and Political Justification
Part Three: The Law of Peoples
8. The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
9. Distributed Justice and the Law of Peoples
Appendices
Appendix A: Remarks on John Rawls, Memorial Service, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, February 27, 2003
Appendix B: John Rawls: Friend and Teacher (Obituary fromThe Chronicle Review: The Chronicle of Higher EducationDecember 13, 2002)

Highly recommended. --D.H. Rice,CHOICE

Freeman is the leading authority on the thought and writing of John Rawls, and Rawls was the leading political and social philosopher of the twentieth century. Freeman's clear, careful, and deeply informed studies in these essays offer important insight about basic questions of interpretation and justification--about Rawls's contractualism, aboutl+