Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Section One Language, Mind, Epistemology
- Section Two Logic, Metaphysics, Science
- Section Three Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
- 16 The Revival of Virtue Ethics
- 17 Kantian Ethics
- 18 Consequentialism and Its Critics
- 19 The Rediscovery of Metanormativity
- 20 Constitutivism
- 21 John Rawls’s Political Liberalism
- 22 The Twilight of the Liberal Social Contract
- 23 Feminist Philosophy and Real Politics
- Section Four Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
22 - The Twilight of the Liberal Social Contract
On the Reception of Rawlsian Political Liberalism
from Section Three - Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2019
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Section One Language, Mind, Epistemology
- Section Two Logic, Metaphysics, Science
- Section Three Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
- 16 The Revival of Virtue Ethics
- 17 Kantian Ethics
- 18 Consequentialism and Its Critics
- 19 The Rediscovery of Metanormativity
- 20 Constitutivism
- 21 John Rawls’s Political Liberalism
- 22 The Twilight of the Liberal Social Contract
- 23 Feminist Philosophy and Real Politics
- Section Four Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
Summary
Political liberalism is a distinctive account of the normative foundations of liberal institutions and practices, developed by John Rawls and others in the final decades of the twentieth century. It remains a fairly active but hardly dominant research program in political philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Its most complete and influential statement is to be found in the second edition of Rawls’s second book, Political Liberalism (1994), and in a few preceding and subsequent works by Rawls (2001a; 2001b).
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- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015 , pp. 297 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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