Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

“Daniel Dombrowski’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of Rawls’s political theory for law, policy, politics, and religion. It uses justice as fairness to shed light on many issues—war, animal rights, affirmative action, and religious diversity in a democratic society—that have been relatively neglected in the literature on Rawls. Dombrowski brings to the task both analytic precision and a religious sensibility, and his ability to tease out the often hidden religious assumptions and implications of Rawls’s theory is impressive. Moreover, the concrete positions that Dombrowski stakes out—support for pacifism and animal rights, opposition to legacies and affirmative action—are controversial, especially from within a Rawlsian framework, and they should deservedly garner the book much scholarly attention.”—Robert S. Taylor, University of California, Davis

• ContentsPreface1Rawls, Natural Rights, and the Process of Reflective Equilibrium2A Rawlsian View of War3Nussbaum, Mental Disability, and Animal Entitlements: A Rawlsian Perspective4A Rawlsian Critique of Legacy and Affirmative Action5“All for the Greater Glory of God”: Was Saint Ignatius Irrational?6Rawlsian ReligionReferencesIndex

Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

“Daniel Dombrowski’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of Rawls’s political theory for law, policy, politics, and religion. It uses justice as fairness to shed light on many issues—war, animal rights, affirmative action, and religious diversity in a democratic society—that have been relatively neglected in the literature on Rawls. Dombrowski brings to the task both analytic precision and a religious sensibility, and his ability to tease out the often hidden religious assumptions and implications of Rawls’s theory is impressive. Moreover, the concrete positions that Dombrowski stakes out—support for pacifism and animal rights, opposition to legacies and affirmative action—are controversial, especially from within a Rawlsian framework, and they should deservedly garner the book much scholarly attention.”—Robert S. Taylor, University of California, Davis

• ContentsPreface1Rawls, Natural Rights, and the Process of Reflective Equilibrium2A Rawlsian View of War3Nussbaum, Mental Disability, and Animal Entitlements: A Rawlsian Perspective4A Rawlsian Critique of Legacy and Affirmative Action5“All for the Greater Glory of God”: Was Saint Ignatius Irrational?6Rawlsian ReligionReferencesIndex