![]() ![]() ![]() He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard. John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. ![]() As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all works." He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. ![]()
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