Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: the original position and The Original Position – an overview
- 1 Justice as fairness, utilitarianism, and mixed conceptions
- 2 Rational choice and the original position: the (many) models of Rawls and Harsanyi
- 3 The strains of commitment
- 4 Our talents, our histories, ourselves: Nozick on the original position argument
- 5 Rawls and Dworkin on hypothetical reasoning
- 6 Feminist receptions of the original position
- 7 G. A. Cohen's critique of the original position
- 8 Liberals, radicals, and the original position
- 9 The original position and Scanlon's contractualism
- 10 The “Kantian roots” of the original position
- 11 Stability and the original position from Theory to Political Liberalism
- 12 The original position in The Law of Peoples
- References
- Index
List of abbreviations
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: the original position and The Original Position – an overview
- 1 Justice as fairness, utilitarianism, and mixed conceptions
- 2 Rational choice and the original position: the (many) models of Rawls and Harsanyi
- 3 The strains of commitment
- 4 Our talents, our histories, ourselves: Nozick on the original position argument
- 5 Rawls and Dworkin on hypothetical reasoning
- 6 Feminist receptions of the original position
- 7 G. A. Cohen's critique of the original position
- 8 Liberals, radicals, and the original position
- 9 The original position and Scanlon's contractualism
- 10 The “Kantian roots” of the original position
- 11 Stability and the original position from Theory to Political Liberalism
- 12 The original position in The Law of Peoples
- References
- Index
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- The Original Position , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015