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Andrea Booker continues to endure life''s struggles. Although she now has help from a loving family and a best friend that she could previously have only dreamed of, some of her difficulties are innately personal. One of her biggest challenges is the acceptance of herself, which naturally includes her alter ego--Miss Mighty. Could an inner conviction outweigh all of the negativity that she has heard, and continues to hear? Will she have the strength to bear the burden inherent with superhero fandom? Will the introduction of a new superhero give her the perfect excuse to stop being Miss Mighty? Is Miss Mighty gone for good? Join the unassuming ten-year-old on the next stage of her life''s journey and adventure.

The world is a dangerous place. Nobody knows that better than nine-year-old Andrea, who has endured many unspeakable tragedies in the span of her short life. The family that she currently lives with--the Wrights--continue to perpetuate some of the harms that she has known. What she needs, and what the world needs, is a hero. What she doesn''t know is that God''s plan is to make her the very hero that is needed. Before realizing her supernatural calling, she had already begun to change the lives of the people in the Wright family. Could she be the agent of change for the people of the world? Could she find the strength within herself to persevere through the continuing struggles of her personal life? Would the added weight of her superhero identity be too much for her to bear? Immerse yourself in the incredible story of an extraordinary girl who faced impossible odds.

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls''s A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls''s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.

Since when is it okay to hire a fifteen-year-old tenth-grader to lead a criminal investigation? Yet, this is exactly what happens to John, who finds that he is in for a lot more than he would have ever thought possible.John is the lowliest of the low. Rejected by many on account of his birth defect, he is used to being overlooked. Imagine his shock when someone comes looking for him-and only him-because he had specifically been chosen! But is it all too good to be true? The stranger speaks of a place called Toyland, whose King supposedly wants John''s help. Would John have the courage to believe that such a place exists? Is it possible that he, an inexperienced high-schooler, could lead a successful investigation? Will he ever discover the truth behind all of the strange goings-on?John John as he embarks on the greatest adventure, and the greatest mystery, of his lifetime.

John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed light on the subject. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction that discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay that places them theological context.

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls''s lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Now that John has defeated the evil Emperor Glu and helped restore peace to the system, he is finally recognized officially as the BabyPhlash of legend. Or is he? Well, he is given a grand coronation ceremony. Heas thoroughly learned the rules of pre- and post-coronation. Heas been made to sign all kinds of contracts preceding his coronation and apparently eminent reign. And because of the contracts and the law, heas forced to cope with his greatest challenge yet, something head vowed never to do again: go to school. As he struggles with this concept and application, he learns of a new plot that threatens to unravel all that he and his cloudtry had built. Certain top government officials are subtly attempting to keep Diamond Kingdom out of Johnas hands. Will John be able to maintain governmental control? Will he be able to simultaneously fight his way through school as he relives his troubled past? Can the bright hope of his future as supreme monarch carry him through what could well be his most difficult times?

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. This book goes deeper to ask how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines.

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). 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 [my previous] 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. 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. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.

John Rawls’s work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls’s views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls’s essays is long overdue.

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosophy with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy''s most noteworthy practitioners and teachers. Central to Rawls''s approach is the idea that respectful attention to the great texts of our tradition can lead to a fruitful exchange of ideas across the centuries. In this spirit, his book engages thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel as they struggle in brilliant and instructive ways to define the role of a moral conception in human life. The lectures delineate four basic types of moral reasoning: perfectionism, utilitarianism, intuitionism, and--the ultimate focus of Rawls''s course--Kantian constructivism. Comprising a superb course on the history of moral philosophy, they also afford unique insight into how John Rawls has transformed our view of this history.

Les sociétés contemporaines sont pluralistes, elles doivent réussir à faire vivre ensemble des cultures ou des groupes très divers. Comment concevoir un consensus démocratique qui reste respectueux de cette diversité sans être pour autant une simple rencontre d''intérêts divergents ? Quelle base morale commune faut-il pour que s''édifie et s''entretienne la confiance dans la justice des institutions ? Le célèbre auteur du monumental Théorie de la justice (Seuil, 1987) considéré comme la charte philosophique de la démocratie libérale, approfondit ici sa réflexion dans le sens d''une conception politique de la société multiculturelle.

This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited and The Law of Peoples. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.

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

Ce livre est considéré dans le monde anglo-saxon comme le texte contemporain le plus important de la philosophie morale et politique. C''est un déli lancé à tous ceux qui pensent que la justice sociale et l''efficacité économique sont incompatibles. Théorie de la justice est un livre de portée universelle, à cause, d''une part, du dialogue qu''il instaure entre deux traditions opposées - Rousseau et Kant confrontés à l''utilitarisme de Mill et de Sidgwick - et, d''autre part, de la rigueur et de la profondeur des analyses qui y sont proposées. C''est, au meilleur sens du terme, un livre de philosophie engagé, donnant aux préoccupations morales et politiques de cette fin du XXe siècle - de la justice sociale à l''écologie, de la politique de l''éducation à la théorie de l''obéissance civile - une armature intellectuelle et une clarté déductive qui leur manquaient. Dans ce livre, souvent difficile mais exaltant, John Rawls a formulé ce qu''on pourrait appeler une charte de la social-démocratie moderne, avec ses forces et ses faiblesses.

"Selected Tanner lectures on moral philosophy."--T.p.