Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xiii List of Acronyms xv Introduction xvii Part 1: Kantian Affinities 1 Rawls’s Kantianism 3 Part 2: Reconstructing Rawls 2 The Kantian Conception of the Person 59 3 The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty 115 4 The Priority of Civil Liberty 152 5 The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity 173 6 The Difference Principle 192 Part 3: Kantian Foundations 7 Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person 231 8 The Poverty of Political Liberalism 249 Conclusion: Justice as Fairness as a Universalistic Kantian Liberalism 301 References 318 Index 326 Contents ...