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Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment-more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls's so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice's implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory-a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Reconstructing Rawls
• Subtitle: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness
• Author: Robert S. Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780271037721
• ISBN: 0271037725
• ID: 04564646
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 548 g
• Dimensions: 145 × 200 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2012

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