Liberalism and the Limits of Justice,9780521562980

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780521562980
ISBN10: 0521562988
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-03-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. This new edition includes a new introduction and a new final chapter in which Professor Sandel responds to the later work of John Rawls.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition: The Limits of Communitarianism ix(8)
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Liberalism and the Primacy of Justice 1(14)
The Foundations of Liberalism: Kant versus Mill 2(5)
The Transcendental Subject 7(4)
The Sociological Objection 11(2)
Deontology with a Humean Face 13(2)
1 Justice and the Moral Subject
15(51)
The Primacy of Justice and the Priority of the Self
15(9)
Liberalism without Metaphysics: The Original Position
24(4)
The Circumstances of Justice: Empiricist Objections
28(12)
The Circumstances of Justice: Deontological Rejoinder
40(7)
In Search of the Moral Subject
47(3)
The Self and the Other: The Priority of Plurality
50(4)
The Self and Its Ends: The Subject of Possession
54(6)
Individualism and the Claims of Community
60(6)
2 Possession, Desert, and Distributive Justice
66(38)
Libertarianism to Egalitarianism
66(6)
Meritocracy versus the Difference Principle
72(5)
Defending Common Assets
77(5)
The Basis of Desert
82(13)
Individual and Social Claims: Who Owns What?
95(9)
3 Contract Theory and Justification
104(29)
The Morality of Contract
105(4)
Contracts versus Contractarian Arguments
109(4)
Liberalism and the Priority of Procedure
113(9)
What Really Goes on behind the Veil of Ignorance
122(11)
4 Justice and the Good
133(42)
The Unity of the Self
133(2)
The Case of Affirmative Action
135(12)
Three Conceptions of Community
147(7)
Agency and the Role of Reflection
154(7)
Agency and the Role of Choice
161(4)
The Status of the Good
165(3)
The Moral Epistemology of Justice
168(4)
Justice and Community
172(3)
Conclusion: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
175(9)
Deontology's Liberating Project
175(3)
Character, Self-Knowledge, and Friendship
178(6)
A Response to Rawls' Political Liberalism
184(35)
Contesting the Priority of the Right over the Good
185(4)
Defending the Priority of the Right over the Good
189(6)
Assessing Political Liberalism
195(24)
Bibliography 219(8)
Index 227

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