The original position
At the centre of John Rawls's political philosophy is one of the most influential thought experiments of the twentieth century: which principles of justice would a group of individuals choose to regulate their society if they were deprived of any information about themselves that might bias their choice? In this collection of new essays, leading political philosophers examine the ramifications and continued relevance of Rawls's idea. Their chapters explore topics including the place of the orig…
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- Full title :The original position / edited by Timothy Hinton.
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At the centre of John Rawls's political philosophy is one of the most influential thought experiments of the twentieth century: which principles of justice would a group of individuals choose to regulate their society if they were deprived of any information about themselves that might bias their choice? In this collection of new essays, leading political philosophers examine the ramifications and continued relevance of Rawls's idea. Their chapters explore topics including the place of the original position in rational choice theory, the similarities between Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative, the differences between Rawls's model and Scanlon's contractualism, and the role of the original position in the argument between Rawls and other views in political philosophy, including utilitarianism, feminism, and radicalism.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 281 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107044487, 1107044480, 9781107627512, 1107627516
- oclc:ocn914136865
- LC Classification:JA71
- Dewey Decimal:320.01
Table of Contents
Introduction: the original position and The Original Position -- an overview / Timothy Hinton -- 1. Justice as fairness, utilitarianism, and mixed conceptions / David O. Brink -- 2. Rational choice and the original position: the (many) models of Rawls and Harsanyi / Gerald Gaus and John Thrasher -- 3. The strains of commitment / Jeremy Waldron -- 4. Our talents, our histories, ourselves: Nozick on the original position argument / John Christman -- 5. Rawls and Dworkin on hypothetical reasoning / Matthew Clayton -- 6. Feminist receptions of the original position / Amy R. Baehr -- 7. G.A. Cohen's critique of the original position / David Estlund -- 8. Liberals, radicals, and the original position / Timothy Hinton -- 9. The original position and Scanlon's contractualism / Joshua Cohen -- 10. The 'Kantian roots' of the original position / Andrews Reath -- 11. Stability and the original position from Theory to Political Liberalism / Paul Weithman -- 12. The original position in the law of peoples / Gillian Brock.
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