This work consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism anon some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. The first essay explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in "Political Liberalism" (1993), are ones that holders of both ...
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This work consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism anon some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. The first essay explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in "Political Liberalism" (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. it is rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine - such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "justice as fairness", presented in "A Theory of Justice" (1971). The second essay extends the idea of a social contract to the society of peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behaviour toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society", and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavourable political and economic conditions.
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New. 067400079X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--199 pages. From a review by Patrick O Gudridge in "The American Journal of International Law", Jul 2001: " `The Law of Peoples' might someday be grouped with writings of Grotius and Kant...Rawls draws upon a vocabulary that, initially anyway, is not especially technical; but he puts seemingly common terms to use in notably dense and intricate ways. The impact of `The Law of Peoples' outside the precincts of political philosophy will depend, to a large extent, upon whether readers find this process of analytical elaboration persuasive. Students of international law, in particular, should regard the Rawlsian analysis as at least provocative. It deploys a strikingly limited conception of international law, seemingly grudging in its account of international human rights and international organizations, but shows that conception to possess surprising and strong origins. I will suggest at the close of this review that it is relatively easy to fit additional international law nearby (as it were) the international law norms that Rawls singles out, and in the process buttress Rawls's own construction, as well. "--with a bonus offer--;
