Persons, Identity, and Political Theory A Defense of Rawlsian Political Identity /

• Main Author: Campbell, Catherine Galko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political theory.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls’s writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.  The book aims to show that objections to Rawls’s political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of political identity is defensible....

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Political Identity, Perfectionism and Neutrality
• Chapter 2: Personal Identity and Liberal Political Theory
• Chapter 3: Clarification of the Liberal/Communitarian Debate and Metaphysical Objections to Rawls’s Conception of the Person.- Chapter 4: Taylor’s Conception of Persons and His Theory of Personal Identity.- Chapter 5: Defense of the Original Position.- Chapter 6: Objections to Rawls’s Political Conception of Persons
• Chapter 7: Defense of Rawls’s Political Conception of the Person.- Chapter 8: Rawlsian Political Identity
• Index.