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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485018403321

Autore

Campbell Catherine Galko

Titolo

Persons, Identity, and Political Theory [[electronic resource] ] : A Defense of Rawlsian Political Identity / / by Catherine Galko Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-007-7917-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

155.2

170

Soggetti

Political philosophy

Political theory

Law—Philosophy

Law

Ethics

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Political Identity, Perfectionism and Neutrality -- Chapter 2: Personal Identity and Liberal Political Theory -- Chapter 3: Clarification of the Liberal/Communitarian Debate and Metaphysical Objections to Rawls’s Conception of the Person.- Chapter 4: Taylor’s Conception of Persons and His Theory of Personal Identity.- Chapter 5: Defense of the Original Position.- Chapter 6: Objections to Rawls’s Political Conception of Persons -- Chapter 7: Defense of Rawls’s Political Conception of the Person.- Chapter 8: Rawlsian Political Identity -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls’s writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.  The book aims to show that objections to Rawls’s political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of political identity is defensible.  The book shows that the debate



between liberals and communitarians is relevant to the current debate regarding perfectionism and neutrality in politics, and clarifies the debate between Rawls and communitarians in a way that will promote fruitful discussion on the issue of political identity.  It does this by providing a clearer account of a conception of personal identity according to which persons are socially constituted, including the intuitions and assumptions underlying the communitarians’ conception of persons as “socially constituted.”  It examines the communitarian objections to liberal political theory and to the liberal conception of persons, the “unencumbered self.”  The book differentiates between two types of objection to the liberal conception of persons: the metaphysical and normative.  It explains Rawls's political conception of persons, and the metaphysical and normative commitments Rawls incurs—and does not incur—in virtue of that conception.  It shows that both kind of objection to Rawls's political conception of the person fail.  Finally, modifying Rawls’s political conception of the person, a Rawlsian conception of political identity is explained and defended. .