Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- 153 Paternalism
- 154 Peoples
- 155 Perfectionism
- 156 Plan of life
- 157 Pogge, Thomas
- 158 Political conception of justice
- 159 Political liberalism, justice as fairness as
- 160 Political liberalisms, family of
- 161 Political obligation
- 162 Political virtues
- 163 Practical reason
- 164 Precepts of justice
- 165 Primary goods, social
- 166 The priority of the right over the good
- 167 Procedural justice
- 168 Promising
- 169 Property-owning democracy
- 170 Public choice theory
- 171 Public political culture
- 172 Public reason
- 173 Publicity
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- 153 Paternalism
- 154 Peoples
- 155 Perfectionism
- 156 Plan of life
- 157 Pogge, Thomas
- 158 Political conception of justice
- 159 Political liberalism, justice as fairness as
- 160 Political liberalisms, family of
- 161 Political obligation
- 162 Political virtues
- 163 Practical reason
- 164 Precepts of justice
- 165 Primary goods, social
- 166 The priority of the right over the good
- 167 Procedural justice
- 168 Promising
- 169 Property-owning democracy
- 170 Public choice theory
- 171 Public political culture
- 172 Public reason
- 173 Publicity
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Rawls introduced the phrase “political liberalism” to distinguish his own account of liberalism from what he called “comprehensive liberalism,” which denotes a liberal theory of politics rooted in a “comprehensive doctrine,” or a doctrine that is at least partially comprehensive. As Rawls explains, modern political thinkers “hoped to establish a basis of moral knowledge independent of ecclesiastical authority” that could be grasped by ordinary people, and that could be used “to develop the full range of concepts and principles in terms of which to characterize the requirements of moral life” (PL xxvi). In this type of theory, political principles are derived from the “basis of moral knowledge,” suggesting that in this view political philosophy is “applied moral philosophy” (JF 14). Although Rawls does not explicitly mention it, many liberals such as J. S. Mill envisioned that the establishment of liberal forms of politics and related changes in the law and economic relationships would be accompanied by a cultural transformation, as society became increasingly secular and religious and other traditional sources of values and identity would atrophy. The widespread acceptance of liberal comprehensive doctrines, then, would support liberal political institutions.
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- The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon , pp. 616 - 622Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014