John Rawls

David A. Reidy is a Professor based in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Theorizing Justice; Institutions and the demands of justice, Liam B. Murphy; The claims of reflective equilibrium, Joseph Raz; Constructing justice for existing practice: Rawls and the status quo, Aaron James; Justice, desert and ideal theory, Jon Mandle; Rawls, Hegel and communitarianism, Sybil A. Schwarzenbach. Part II What Justice Demands: Equality of what: welfare, resources or capabilities?, Norman Daniels; Rawls's defense of the priority of liberty: a Kantian reconstruction, Robert S. Taylor; Equal liberty for all?, Thomas Pogge; Liberal individualism and liberal neutrality, Will Kymlicka; The revisionist difference principle, Andrew D. Williams; Just savings and the difference principle, Steven Wall; What is egalitarianism?, Samuel Sheffler; Justice and gender: an unfinished debate, Susan Moller Okin. Part III A Political liberalism: A more democratic liberalism, Joshua Cohen; Disagreements about justice, Jeremy Waldron; The moral basis of political liberalism, Charles Larmore; What is reasonableness?, James W. Boettcher; Religious citizens within the limits of public reason, Philip L. Quinn; The completeness of public reason, Micah Schwartzman. Part IV A Liberal Foreign Policy: Critical notice: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With the 'Idea of Public Reason' Revisited, Kok-Chor Tan; The Law of Peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributive justice, Samuel Freeman; Name index.