John Rawls

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conceptions of Property in the Original Position -- Why Not Capitalism? -- Rawls's Non-Response to This Argument -- A Rawlsian Explanation -- 2 Property-Owning Democracy versus Liberal Socialism -- What Rawls Meant by ''Liberal Democratic Socialism'' -- The ''Means of Production'' -- Historical Digression -- The ''Commanding Heights'' of the Economy -- Rawls's Understanding of ''Property-Owning Democracy'' -- Property-Owning Democracy as an Alternative to Capitalism -- The Political History of the Term ''Property-Owning Democracy'' -- Ambiguous Indications -- Summing Up -- 3 Fair Value and the Fact of Domination -- 4 The Four-Stage Sequence -- The Constitutional-Stage: Knowledge and Task -- The Constitutional Stage: The Rule of Decision -- The Constitutional Stage: Fair Value -- The Constitutional Stage: ''Wide'' versus ''Narrow'' Distributive Justice -- The Five Ideal Regime Types -- The Third, Legislative Stage -- The Fourth, and Final, Administrative/Judicial Stage -- 5 The Circumstances of Politics -- Anxiety in the Circumstances of Justice -- The Limited Space of the Political -- 6 Rescuing the Difference Principle -- Relative Stability: The Two Fundamental Comparisons -- First Fundamental Comparison: ''Stressing the Second Condition'' -- The Reconciliation Requirement -- The Publicity Condition -- The Express Reciprocity Criterion -- Second Fundamental Comparison: Publicity, Reciprocity, Stability -- Grounds of Publicity -- Grounds of Reciprocity -- Grounds of Stability -- Counting Up the Grounds -- Reciprocity and Strains of Commitment -- Reflection on the Part One Argument for Justice as Fairness -- 7 The Special Psychologies -- Varieties of Envy -- Envy and Inequality

Circumstances of Politics Bring in Excusable Particular Envy -- The Stability of the Priority Principles -- Stability of a Conception and Stability of Institutions -- 8 Socialism and Stability -- Overview: Four Stages in Two Parts -- From Comprehensive to Political Stability -- Stability and the Constitutional Convention -- Mirroring the Original Position -- Property Regimes in the Constitutional Convention -- 9 The Common Content of the Two Regimes -- The Common Content -- Justice as Fairness -- Redistributive Policies -- Devices to Assure Fair Value -- Full Employment -- Summing Up -- 10 The Property Question -- The Three Essentials for a Stable Constitutional Regime -- The Reconciliation Requirement -- Publicity Condition: Clear and Reliable Criteria: Workability -- Express Reciprocity Condition -- Other Aspects of Stability -- Conceiving Society as a Cooperative Scheme for Mutual Advantage -- Grounds Disfavoring Property-Owning Democracy -- Just Savings and Regime Type -- Summary and Conclusion -- 11 Religion and Reticence -- Rawls's Development and Mill's: A Comparison -- The Youthful Stage: A Brief Inquiry -- Analytical Stage: A Theory of Justice -- Corrective Stage: The Restatement -- The Prospective Stage -- Fetishizing the Means of Production -- Staying True to the Political -- The Motivational Worry -- 12 Non-Ideal Theory: The Transition to Socialism -- Civil Disobedience and Political Violence -- The ''Perfectly-Ordered Society'' -- Injustice in the Well-Ordered Society -- The ''Badly Ordered'' Society -- The Nearly Just Society: Well but Not Perfectly Ordered -- Justifying Civil Disobedience in a Nearly-Well-Ordered Society -- Is Welfare-State Capitalism Badly Ordered? -- The ''New Party'' and Stability for the Wrong Reasons -- Bibliography -- Index

The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of 'justice-as-fairness'