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The Law of Peoples - With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" (Paperback, Revised)
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The Law of Peoples - With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" (Paperback, Revised)
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This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples," a major
reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in
1993, and the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first
published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more
than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the
most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. "The Law of
Peoples" 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 behavior 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 unfavorable political and economic conditions. "The Idea of
Public Reason Revisited" 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).
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