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The law of peoples : with "The idea of public reason revisited" / created by John Rawls

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Harvard University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: viii, 199 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674005426
  • 067400079X (alk. papper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JZ1242 RAW
Contents:
The law of peoples. The first part of ideal theory ; The second part of ideal theory ; Nonideal theory ; Conclusion -- The idea of public reason revisited.
Summary: The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the principles that should be accepted as the standard for regulating a society's behavior toward another. In particular, it draws a distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy.
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Includes an index.

The law of peoples. The first part of ideal theory ; The second part of ideal theory ; Nonideal theory ; Conclusion --
The idea of public reason revisited.

The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the principles that should be accepted as the standard for regulating a society's behavior toward another. In particular, it draws a distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy.

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