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Tables of Contents for Justice As Fairness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Foreword
xi
Preface
xv
PART I Fundamental Ideas
1
38
Four Roles of Political Philosophy
1
4
Society as a Fair System of Cooperation
5
3
The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society
8
2
The Idea of the Basic Structure
10
2
Limits to Our Inquiry
12
2
The Idea of the Original Position
14
4
The Idea of Free and Equal Persons
18
6
Relations between the Fundamental Ideas
24
2
The Idea of Public Justification
26
3
The Idea of Reflective Equilibrium
29
3
The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus
32
7
PART II Principles of Justice
39
41
Three Basic Points
39
3
Two Principles of Justice
42
8
The Problem of Distributive Justice
50
2
The Basic Structure as Subject: First Kind of Reason
52
3
The Basic Structure as Subject: Second Kind of Reason
55
2
Who Are the Least Advantaged?
57
4
The Difference Principle: Its Meaning
61
5
Objections via Counterexamples
66
6
Legitimate Expectations, Entitlement, and Desert
72
2
On Viewing Native Endowments as a Common Asset
74
3
Summary Comments on Distributive Justice and Desert
77
3
PART III The Argument from the Original Position
80
55
The Original Position: The Set-Up
80
4
The Circumstances of Justice
84
1
Formal Constraints and the Veil of Ignorance
85
4
The Idea of Public Reason
89
5
First Fundamental Comparison
94
3
The Structure of the Argument and the Maximin Rule
97
4
The Argument Stressing the Third Condition
101
3
The Priority of the Basic Liberties
104
2
An Objection about Aversion to Uncertainty
106
5
The Equal Basic Liberties Revisited
111
4
The Argument Stressing the Second Condition
115
4
Second Fundamental Comparison: Introduction
119
1
Grounds Falling under Publicity
120
2
Grounds Falling under Reciprocity
122
2
Grounds Falling under Stability
124
2
Grounds against the Principle of Restricted Utility
126
4
Comments on Equality
130
2
Concluding Remarks
132
3
PART IV Institutions of a Just Basic Structure
135
45
Property-Owning Democracy: Introductory Remarks
135
3
Some Basic Contrasts between Regimes
138
2
Ideas of the Good in Justice as Fairness
140
5
Constitutional versus Procedural Democracy
145
3
The Fair Value of the Equal Political Liberties
148
2
Denial of the Fair Value for Other Basic Liberties
150
3
Political and Comprehensive Liberalism: A Contrast
153
4
A Note on Head Taxes and the Priority of Liberty
157
1
Economic Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy
158
4
The Family as a Basic Institution
162
6
The Flexibility of an Index of Primary Goods
168
8
Addressing Marx's Critique of Liberalism
176
3
Brief Comments on Leisure Time
179
1
PART V The Question of Stability
180
23
The Domain of the Political
180
4
The Question of Stability
184
4
Is Justice as Fairness Political in the Wrong Way?
188
1
How Is Political Liberalism Possible?
189
3
An Overlapping Consensus Not Utopian
192
3
A Reasonable Moral Psychology
195
3
The Good of Political Society
198
5
Index
203