{"title":"John Rawls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Rawls\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into moral and political philosophy, challenging readers to reconsider concepts of justice, fairness, and equality. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the principles that should govern a just society and the ethical foundations that underpin political order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring complex ideas around liberalism and democratic theory, Rawls's writings engage with questions of rights, freedoms, and the role of institutions. His contributions remain central to contemporary debates in \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-theory-of-justice-by-john-rawls-9780674000780","title":"A Theory of Justice","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each person,\" writes Rawls, \"possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.\" Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871333503212,"sku":"9780674000780","price":113.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26595473482427.jpg?v=1759875184"},{"product_id":"political-liberalism-by-john-rawls-9780231130899","title":"Political Liberalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/em\u003e but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a \"well-ordered society,\" one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet in modern democratic society, a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431997620460,"sku":"9780231130899","price":50.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231130899.jpg?v=1774556978"},{"product_id":"a-theory-of-justice-by-john-rawls-9780674017726","title":"A Theory of Justice","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each person,\" writes Rawls, \"possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.\" Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough the revised edition of \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, much of the extensive literature on his theory refers to the original. This first edition is available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485916479724,"sku":"9780674017726","price":112.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ebeb70252bee10df3dfdc9990665b91b.jpg?v=1775791416"},{"product_id":"justice-as-fairness-by-john-rawls-9780674005112","title":"Justice as Fairness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. 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 \u003ci\u003ePolitical Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). 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 [my previous] 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRawls is well aware that since the publication of \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486146904300,"sku":"9780674005112","price":87.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bf86761fc0d336512c3bfabdfabdc1ff.jpg?v=1775779848"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/john-rawls.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}