To probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order,
John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that
abstracted from many of the details of ordinary life. But this very
abstraction became a point of criticism, as it left unclear the
implications of his theory for public policies and life in the real
political world. Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied
Philosophy attempts to ferret out those implications, filling the
gap between Rawls's own empyrean heights and the really practical
public policy proposals made by government planners, lobbyists, and
legislators. Among the topics examined are natural rights, the
morality of war, the treatment of mentally deficient humans and
nonhuman sentient creatures, the controversies over legacy and
affirmative action in college admissions, and the place of
religious belief in a democratic society. The final chapter
explores how Rawls's own religious beliefs, as revealed in two
works posthumously published in 2009, played into his formulation
of his theory of justice.
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