![]() ( Times Literary Supplement)Įnlightenment comes in various forms, sometimes even by means of books. ![]() Indeed, his book might plausibly be claimed to be the most notable contribution to that tradition to have been published since Sidgwick and Mill. It is a convincing refutation, if one is needed, of any lingering suspicions that the tradition of English-speaking political philosophy might be dead. ![]() has elucidated a conception of justice which goes beyond anything to be found in Kant or Rousseau. (Marshall Cohen New York Times Book Review) No higher achievement is open to a scholar. In making his peerless contribution to political theory, John Rawls has made a unique contribution to this urgent task. He also makes clear how wrong it was to claim, as so many were claiming only a few years back, that systematic moral and political philosophy are dead.Whatever else may be true it is surely true that we must develop a sterner and more fastidious sense of justice. makes available the powerful intellectual resources and the comprehensive approach that have so far eluded antiutilitarians. ![]() ![]() In his magisterial new work.John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy to provide the social contract tradition with what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, the most formidable defense it has yet received. ![]()
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