"This collection contains nearly all of Rawls's published papers"--p. ix.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Outline of a decision procedure for ethics -- Two concepts of rules -- Justice as fairness -- Constitutional liberty and the concept of justice -- Sense of justice -- Legal obligation and the duty of fair play -- Distributive justice -- Distributive justice : some addenda -- Justification of civil disobedience -- Justice as reciprocity -- Some reasons for the Maximin criterion -- Reply to Alexander and Musgrave -- Kantian conception of equality -- Fairness to goodness -- Independence of moral theory -- Kantian constructivism in moral theory -- Social unity and primary goods -- Justice as fairness : political not metaphysical -- Preface for the French edition of A theory of justice -- Idea of an overlapping consensus -- Priority of right and ideas of the good -- Domain of the political and overlapping consensus -- Themes in Kant's moral philosophy -- Law of peoples -- Fifty years after Hiroshima -- Idea of public reason revisited -- Commonweal interview with John Rawls.