Rawls's law of peoples : a realistic utopia? /
John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains ne...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls's The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of glo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470776612 0470776617 9781405157360 1405157364 |