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Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' foremost interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position. Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is an excellent thinker in his own right, and these articles will be useful to a wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and the expanse of his influence.
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Justice and the Social Contract
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Justice and the Social Contract Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy
SAMUEL FREEMAN
3 2007
3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam
Copyright © 2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Freeman, Samuel Richard. Justice and the social contract : essays on Rawlsian political philosophy / Samuel Freeman. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13 978-0-19-530141-0 ISBN 0-19-530141-2 1. Justice. 2. Social contract. 3. Rawls, John, 1921– Theory of justice. I. Title. JC578. F697 2006 320.01'1—dc22 2005058991
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To my mother, Clara Smith Freeman, who taught me to persevere, and in memory of my father, Frank Freeman, who, in a small Southern town, first taught me about Justice
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Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Originally published in Philosophy and Public Affairs 19, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 122–57. Copyright 1990 by Blackwell Publishing; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Two: Originally published in Philosophy and Public Affairs 23, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 313–49. Copyright 1994 by Blackwell Publishing; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Five: Originally published in The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, ed. Samuel Freeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 277–315. Copyright 2003 by Cambridge University Press; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Six: Originally published in Chicago-Kent Law Review 69, no. 3 (1994): 301–50. Copyright 1994 by Chicago Kent Law Review; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Seven: Originally published in Fordham Law Review 68 (April 2004): 101–48. Copyright 2004 by Fordham Law Review; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Eight: Originally published in Social Philosophy and Policy 23, no. 1 (January 2006): 29–68. Copyright 2006 by Cambridge University Press; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Chapter Nine: Forthcoming in Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? ed. Rex Martin and David Reidy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). Copyright 2006 by Blackwell Publishers; reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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