![]() Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all works." He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. 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). ![]() ![]() This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. ![]()
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