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Part I. Ambitions -- 1. From philosophical theology to democratic theory: early postcards from an intellectual journey / David A. Reidy -- 2. Does justice as fairness have a religious aspect? / Paul Weithman -- Part II. Method -- 3. Constructivism as rhetoric / Anthony Simon Laden -- 4. Kantian constructivism / Larry Krasnoff -- 5. The basic structure of society as the primary subject of justice / Samuel Freeman -- 6. Rawls on ideal and nonideal theory / Zofia Stemplowska and Adam Swift -- 7. The choice from the original position / Jon Mandle -- Part III. A theory of justice -- 8. The priority of liberty / Robert S. Taylor -- 9. Applying justice as fairness to institutions / Colin M. Macleod -- 10. Democratic equality as a work-in-progress / Stuart White -- 11. Stability, a sense of justice, and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr -- 12. Political authority, civil disobedience, revolution / Alexander Kaufman -- Part IV. A political conception -- 13. The turn to a political liberalism / Gerald Gaus -- 14. Political considerations / Aaron James -- 15. On the idea of public reason / Jonathan Quong -- 16. Overlapping consensus / Rex Martin -- 17. Citizenship as fairness: John Rawls's conception of civic virtue / Richard Dagger -- 18. Inequality, difference, and prospects for democracy / Erin I. Kelly -- Part V. Extending political liberalism: international relations -- 19. The law of peoples / Huw Lloyd Williams -- 20. Human rights / Gillian Brock -- 21. Global poverty and global inequality / Richard W. Miller -- 22. Just war / Darrel Moellendorf -- Part VI. Conversations with other perspectives -- 23. Rawls, Mill, and utilitarianism / Jonathan Riley -- 24. Perfectionist justice and Rawlsian legitimacy / Steven Wall -- 25. The unwritten theory of justice: Rawlsian liberalism versus libertarianism / Barbara H. Fried -- 26. The young Marx and the middle-aged Rawls / Daniel Brudney -- 27. Challenges of global and local misogyny / Claudia Card -- 28. Critical theory and Habermas / Kenneth Baynes -- 29. Rawls and economics / Daniel Little -- 30. Learning from the history of political philosophy / S.A. Lloyd -- 31. Rawls and the history of moral philosophy: the cases of Smith and Kant / Paul Guyer.

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