Rawls: An Introduction

Preface vii

List of Abbreviations xi

1. Introduction 1

2. The Theory 25

3. The First Principle of Justice 52

4. The Second Principle of Justice 70

5. The Original Position 100

6. Reflective Equilibrium 139

7. Main Critisms of Rawls 158

8. From A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism 189

9. Introducing Political Liberalism 210

10. The State of the Problem 229

11. Overlapping Consensus and Public Reason 260

12. The Law of Peoples 293

Notes 320

References 363

Index 379