Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
This 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 Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness …
Jhon Rawls mengemukakan suatu ide dalam bukunya A Theory of Justice bahwa teori keadilan merupakan suatu metode untuk mempelajari dan menghasilkan keadilan. Ada prosedur-prosedur berfikir untuk menghasilkan keadilan. Buku A Theory of Justice yang ditulis oleh John Rawls pada 1971 merupakan tonggak baru dalam sejarah pemikiran politik. Pasca-eranya David Hume, Immanuel Kant dan John Stuart Mill…
The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosop…