Rawls on International Justice

A Defense

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ID6351965
AuthorsDavid A Reidy (0000-0002-0991-6280, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume32
Issue3
Pages291-319
Publication date2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591703260928
OpenAlexW3124769589
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited1

Rawls’s The Law of Peoples has not been well received. The first task of this essay is to draw (what the author regards as) Rawls’s position out of his own text where it is imperfectly and incompletely expressed. Rawls’s view, once fully and clearly presented, is less vulnerable to common criticisms than it is often taken to be. The second task of this essay is to go beyond Rawls’s text to develop some supplementary lines of argument, still Rawlsian in spirit, to deflect key criticisms made by Rawls’s critics. The overall defense given here of Rawls’s position draws on a deep theme running throughout all of Rawls’s work in political philosophy, namely, that the task of political philosophy is to mark the moral limits given by and through a commonhuman reason, itself socially and historically achieved, within which human nature must develop (and reveal itself over time) if it is to be an expression or manifestation of human freedom

Argument (complex analysis · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Law and economics · Original position · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Primary goods · Reflective equilibrium · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions

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