About this title: The philosophical interest of John Rawls' recently rediscovered senior thesis, completed just before he shipped out for the Pacific in 1942, cannot be separated from our knowledge of Rawls' later work - but his defining intellectual quality and moral motivation are already visible in his defense of a conception of faith as membership with all other persons in a spiritual community with one another and with God. Much modern philosophy defined itself against religion, yet Christian beliefs give the basic structure to Rawls' Theory of Justice. The notion of the 'veil of ignorance', for instance, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-03-15
ISBN-13:9780674033313ISBN:0674033310
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780674033313ISBN:0674033310
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780674033313ISBN:0674033310
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780674033313ISBN:0674033310
Description: New. These posthumously discovered articles provide an overview of Rawls's changing religious beliefs. This volume includes the philosopher's thesis "A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith" and "On My Religion, " which describes his abandonment... read more
"I may not have been paying enough attention -- this book publishes Rawls' undergraduate senior thesis at Princeton, which is not really of general interest and should not have been published, at least with this level of publicity. Prefatory essays drawing links between the thesis -- which draws on the work of Emil Brunner and other then-contemporary theologians -- and Rawls' mature work are interesting. A short piece written by Rawls toward the end of his life discussing his departure from religious orthodoxy concludes the book, and that is also interesting."
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