Collected papers / John Rawls ; edited by Samuel Freeman.

"This collection contains nearly all of Rawls's published papers"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Outline of a decision procedure for ethics -- Two concepts of rules -- Justice as fairness -- Constitutional liberty and the concept of justice -- Sense of justice -- Legal obligation and the duty of fair play -- Distributive justice -- Distributive justice : some addenda -- Justification of civil disobedience -- Justice as reciprocity -- Some reasons for the Maximin criterion -- Reply to Alexander and Musgrave -- Kantian conception of equality -- Fairness to goodness -- Independence of moral theory -- Kantian constructivism in moral theory -- Social unity and primary goods -- Justice as fairness : political not metaphysical -- Preface for the French edition of A theory of justice -- Idea of an overlapping consensus -- Priority of right and ideas of the good -- Domain of the political and overlapping consensus -- Themes in Kant's moral philosophy -- Law of peoples -- Fifty years after Hiroshima -- Idea of public reason revisited -- Commonweal interview with John Rawls

John Rawls' work on justice has perhaps drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the 20th century. Some of these essays articulate views distinct from those in his books.

First published: 1991