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Ces Leçons sur l''histoire de la philosophie morale représentent l''aboutissement mûrement réfléchi de près de trente ans d''enseignement à Harvard (1962-1991). Pendant ces années, la pensée de John Rawls s''est confrontée aux textes majeurs de la modernité philosophique dans un souci de transmission pédagogique, mais surtout de mise en perspective des sources de ses propres conceptions morales et politiques. Il signale ainsi dans quelle mesure Théorie de la Justice s''inscrit dans la lignée des systèmes de pensée et des problématiques qu''il examine par ailleurs avec le plus grand scrupule philologique. L''une des vertus essentielles de cet ouvrage est de démentir l''idée reçue selon laquelle le style analytique d''une certaine philosophie politique anglo-saxonne la rendrait insensible aux enjeux de pensée soulevés par l''histoire de la philosophie.

Apresenta duas partes: A Idéia da Razão Pública Revista que descreve, detalhadamente, como uma democracia constitucional moderna poderia ser vista como legítima por cidadãos que não aceitam uma doutrina abrangente liberal. Na segunda, O Direito dos Povos, lança os princípios gerais que podem e devem ser aceitos por sociedade liberais e não liberais como padrão para regulamentar a conduta recíproca.

This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. “The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an “outlaw society” and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls’s most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls’s own “Justice as Fairness,” presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).

Summary Table of Contents: Moral Inquiry, Moral Theories and Applications, Moral Issues.

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