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. No higher achievement is open to a scholar." -Marshall Cohen, New York Times Book Review 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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