Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith

Paul Weithman is Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

• Works by John Rawls; Introduction; Part I. The Undergraduate Thesis: 1. On John Rawls's A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith; Part II. From Theory to Political Liberalism: 2. John Rawls and the task of political philosophy; 3. Rawlsian liberalism and the privatization of religion: three theological objections considered; 4. Liberalism and the political character of political philosophy; 5. Legitimacy and the project of political liberalism; Part III. Public Reason and its Role: 6. Citizenship and public reason; 7. Inclusivism, stability and assurance; 8. Convergence and political autonomy; Part IV. Rawls, Realism and Reasonable Faith: 9. Law of peoples and Christian realism; 10. Does justice as fairness have a religious aspect?; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index.

'Detailed, methodical … Weithman makes a largely convincing argument that Rawls's 'political turn,' if it was ever a turn at all, is not what the standard interpretation of it has made it out to be … Highly recommended.' Choice