![]() ![]() “Rawls’s Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this century’s most important work of political philosophy. ” -Marshall Cohen, New York Times Book Review No higher achievement is open to a scholar. ![]() In making his peerless contribution to political theory, John Rawls has made a unique contribution to this urgent task. He also makes clear how wrong it was to claim, as so many were claiming only a few years back, that systematic moral and political philosophy are dead… Whatever else may be true it is surely true that we must develop a sterner and more fastidious sense of justice. ![]() “In his magisterial new work…John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy to provide the social contract tradition with what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, the most formidable defense it has yet received… makes available the powerful intellectual resources and the comprehensive approach that have so far eluded antiutilitarians. ” -Scott Turow, New York Times Book Review (2013) “I don’t know of a more lucid articulation of the intuitions many of us share about what is just. ![]()
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