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This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993).... read more

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First Sentence

1.1 We begin by distinguishing four roles that political philosophy may have as part of a society's public political culture.

Authors & Contributors

  1. John Rawls (Author)

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  1. philosophy
  2. political theory
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