《Political Liberalism》continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work argued that a "well-ordered society" is possible, one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs.Yet in modern democratic society, a multitude of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines- religious, philosophical, and moral- coexist within the frame-woork of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines...

Introduction

Introduction to the Paperback Edition

PART ONE Political

 Liberalism:

 Basic

 Elements

LECTURE I.Fundamental Ideas

 1.Addressing Two Fundamental Questions

 2.The Idea of a Political Conception of Justice

 3.The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation

 4.The Idea of the Original Position

 5.The Political Conception of the Person

 6.The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society

 7.Neither a Community nor an Association

 8.The Use of Abstract Conceptions

LECTURE II. The Powers of Citizens and Their Representation

 1.The Reasonable and the Rational

 2.The Burdens of Judgment

 3.Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines

 4.The Publicity Condition: Its Three Levels

 5.Rational Autonomy: Artificial not Political

 6.Full Autonomy: Political not Ethical

 7.The Basis of Motivation in the Person

 8.Moral Psychology: Philosophical not Psychological

LECTURE III. Political Constructivism

 1.The Idea of a Constructivist Conception

 2.Kant's Moral Constructivism

 3.Justice as Fairness as a Constructivist View

 4.The Role of Conceptions of Society and Person

 5.Three Conceptions of Objectivity

 6.Objectivity Independent of the Causal View of Knowledge

 7.When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking?

 8.The Scope of Political Constructivism

PART TWO Political Liberalism: Three Main Ideas

PART THREE Institutional Framewor

PART FOUR The Idea of Public Reason Revisited

Original Index

Index to the New Material