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John Rawls is the most influential 20th century political philosopher, but critics have complained about the ahistorical character of his approach. The purpose of this book is to argue that these critics are, at best, only half correct.Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy concentrates on four pre-liberal thinkers who are major figures in the history of philosophy and who are surprisingly formative in the development of Rawls’s mature political philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.

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Author:   Daniel Dombrowski
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.439kg
ISBN:  

9789004520240

ISBN 10:   9004520244
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   25 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Introduction 1 Rawls and Plato: The Noble Lie and Social Contract Theory  1 Introduction  2 The Very Early Rawls  3 The Mature Rawls and the Noble Lie  4 Ferguson’s Criticisms  5 Strauss and the Straussians  6 Page’s View  7 The Smith-Brickhouse Stance  8 Annas and Bok  9 Political Liberalism  10 Social Contract Theory  11 Conclusion 2 Rawls and Aristotle: Reflective Equilibrium and the Battle between the Ancients and the Moderns  1 Introduction  2 Some Basic Similarities and Differences  3 Wolterstorff’s View  4 Dworkin’s View  5 Natural Rights  6 Critique of Wolterstorff’s View  7 Relativism  8 The Ancients and the Moderns  9 The Aristotelian Principle  10 Virtue  11 The Capabilities Approach  12 Conclusion 3 Rawls and Augustine: Sin, Pluralism of Comprehensive Doctrines, and Nonideal Theory  1 Introduction  2 Sin  3 Infancy and Childhood  4 God as Personal  5 Pluralism of Comprehensive Doctrines  6 Just War Theory  7 Abortion  8 Nelson on Pelagianism  9 Conclusion 4 Rawls and Aquinas: Deliberative Rationality, Love, and Justice  1 Introduction  2 The Common Good  3 Natural Duty  4 Faith and Sin  5 Nonhuman Animals  6 Deliberative Rationality  7 Types of Dominant Ends  8 Justice  9 Love  10 Freeman’s and Pogge’s Contributions  11 Facilitation of a Just Society  12 Conclusion 5 Rawls and History: Ahistoricism and Contextualism  1 Introduction  2 Plato’s Philosophy of History  3 Two Interpretations of Kant  4 Crucial Points in History  5 Ahistoricism and Contextualism  6 Recognition  7 Robust Reasonableness  8 Lefebvre and Spiritual Exercises  9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of twenty books and over one hundred and eighty articles in scholarly journals in philosophy, theology, classics, and literature. Among his books are Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); and Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

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