Rawls probeert in dit boek een rechtvaardigheidstheorie te formuleren waar volkomen vrije en redelijke personen mee zouden instemmen. Als mensen hun eigen plek in de samenleving, hun klasse, ras of geslacht niet zouden kennen, noch hun vermogens of intelligentie - hoe zouden zij dan de samenleving inrichten?  Meer

Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books.  Meer

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise 'Political Liberalism' (1993).  Meer

The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the principles that should be accepted as the standard for regulating a society's behavior toward another.  Meer