Description
Samuel Freeman is a leading political philosopher and one of the foremost authorities on the works of John Rawls. Liberalism and Distributive Justice offers a series of Freeman's essays in contemporary political philosophy on three different forms of liberalism-classical liberalism, libertarianism, and the high liberal tradition--and their relation to capitalism, the welfare state, and economic justice.
Table of Contents
AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Economic Justice1. Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions2. Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal ViewPart II: Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle3. Rawls on Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle4. Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference Principle5. Private Law and Rawls's Principles of JusticePart III: Liberal Institutions and Distributive Justice6. The Social and Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice7. The Basic Structure of Society as The Primary Subject of Justice8. Ideal Theory and the Justice of Institutions9. Constructivism, Facts, and Moral JustificationReferencesIndex
