Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

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book philosophical work

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement is a later work by philosopher John Rawls that clarifies, updates, and systematizes his theory of justice originally presented in A Theory of Justice.

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instanceOf	book → philosophical work →
addresses	priority of the right over the good → role of public reason → stability of a just society →
aimsAt	well-ordered society →
author	John Rawls →
basedOn	justice as fairness →
clarifies	A Theory of Justice →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
emphasizes	freestanding political conception of justice →
follows	A Theory of Justice →
framework	social contract framework →
genre	moral philosophy → political philosophy →
hasKeyConcept	basic liberties → overlapping consensus → primary goods → public justification → reasonable pluralism →
influencedBy	Kantian moral philosophy → liberal egalitarianism → social contract tradition →
influences	contemporary political philosophy → debates on distributive justice → liberal egalitarian theory →
language	English →
philosophicalTradition	analytic philosophy →
presents	two principles of justice →
subject	basic structure of society → constitutional democracy → difference principle → distributive justice → fair equality of opportunity → original position → political liberalism → public reason → social contract theory → theory of justice → veil of ignorance →
systematizes	justice as fairness →
updates	A Theory of Justice →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ("justice as fairness") →	basedOn
A Theory of Justice →	followedBy
John Rawls →	notableWork
John Rawls ("2001: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement") →	publicationDateOfWork
Political Liberalism →	relatedWork
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ("justice as fairness") →	systematizes