Justice and the Social Contract

Samuel Freeman is Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania. He edited both John Rawls's Collected Papers (1999) and his Essays in the History of Political Philosophy (2007).

Highly recommended.

• Introduction Part One: A Theory of Justice Chapter One: Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views Chapter Two: Utilitarian, Deontology, and the Priority of Right Chapter Three: Consequentialist, Publicity, Stability, and Property-Owning Democracy Chapter Four: Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism Chapter Five: Congruence and the Good Justice Part Two: Political Liberalism Chapter Six: Political Liberalism and the Possibility of a Just Democratic Constitution Chapter Seven: Public Reason and Political Justification Part Three: The Law of Peoples Chapter Eight: The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice Chapter Nine: Distributed Justice and the Law of Peoples Appendices Appendix A: Remarks on John Rawls, Memorial Service, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, February 27, 2003 Appendix B: John Rawls: Friend and Teacher (Obituary from The Chronical Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 13, 2002)