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Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls's Political Turn

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ISBN-10: 0199970947

ISBN-13: 9780199970940

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul Weithman

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In Why Political Liberalism?Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn." Weithman takes Rawls at his word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked by Rawls's readers, is the threat that the justice of a well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized prisoner's dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of "A Theory of Justice"…    
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Introduction
Overview
The Road to Come
A Deeper Understanding of Justice as Fairness?
Unity, Theodicy, and the Attractions of Liberalism
A Final Word to the Reader
The Public Basis View
Initial Statement of the Public Basis View
The Pivotal Argument
Imputing the Pivotal Argument?
The Public Basis View Restated
Difficulties with the Strong Version
Difficulties with the Weak Version
Conclusion
Stability and Congruence
Stability, Inherent and Imposed
Matching the Right and the Good in Justice as Fairness
Congruence and Stability
Congruence and Inherent Stability
Ideals and Inconsistency
An Inconsistency in Justice as Fairness?
Ideals and Comprehensive Conceptions
Endorsing on the Basis of Shared Ideals
Congruence and C<sub>3</sub>
C<sub>3</sub> and Inconsistency
The Acquisition of Four Desires
Two Readings of the Aristotelian Principle
The Acquisition of Four Desires
Four Desires and Thin Reasons
Thin Reasons to Be Just
Setting up the Problem
The Aristotelian Principle and the Argument for Congruence
Four Thin Reasons
Some Questions about the First Three Arguments
Some Puzzles about the Fourth Argument
The Argument from Love and Justice
Balances and Temptations
Two Questions about Table II.3
Conditional Balances and Balance Conditionals
The Argument from Love and Justice
Love's Balance
Four Comments on the Argument
Kantian Congruence and the Unified Self
An Overview of the Kantian Congruence Argument
The Argument from C<sub>4</sub>a
From the Ostensible Conclusion to Congruence
Establishing (5.5')
Defending (5.2)
Finality, Rationality, and the Unity of the Self
Kantian Unity
Korsgaard, Unity and the Bridge Function
Is the OP Necessary?
Conclusion
The Great Unraveling
The Content of Ideals
Defending C<sub>3</sub>
Pluralism and the Failure of Congruence
The Failure of Kantian Congruence
The Great Unraveling
Brief Contrasts with Other Accounts
The Political Ideals of Justice as Fairness
PL's Basic Argument for Stability
C<sub>3</sub>'and the Sense of Justice
C<sub>3</sub>' and the Ideals of Conduct
C<sub>3</sub>' and the Social Ideals of Justice as Fairness
Whither Congruence?
Comprehensive Reasons to Be Just
Moving from (9.2) and (9.3) to (9.5)
Would there Be an Overlapping Consensus?
Legitimacy and Justification
Why Political Legitimacy?
A Question about the Arguments for C<sub>9</sub> and C<sub>PL</sub>
Public Reason, Mutual Assurance, and Pluralism about Justice
Stability, Reflective Equilibrium, and Public Justification
Conclusion
Conclusion: Why Political Liberalism?
The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism?
A Conception-Based View
Defending Political Liberalism
"And very good it was"
Bibliography
Index