Justice as Fairness

A Restatement

By: John Rawls,Professor John Rawls

Philosophy

this book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that rawls taught regularly at harvard in the 1980s. in time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise political liberalism (1993). as rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as...