# Political liberalism (book)

> 정의론, 만민법과 함께 존 롤스의 3대 저서 중 하나.

[정의론](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/A%20theory%20of%20justice.txt), 만민법과 함께 [존 롤스](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/John%20Rawls.txt)의 3대 저서 중 하나.

## Introduction

## Introduction to the Paperback Edition

## PART ONE - Political Liberalism: Basic Elements

### LECTURE 1 - Fundamental Ideas

**§ 1. Addressing Two Fundamental Questions**

**§ 2. The Idea of a Political Conception of Justice**

**§ 3. The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation**

**§ 4. The Idea of the Original Position**

**§ 5. The Political Conception of the Person**

**§ 6. The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society**

**§ 7. Neither a Community nor an Association**

**§ 8. On the Use of Abstract Conceptions**

### LECTURE II - Powers of Citizens and Their Representation

**§ 1. The Reasonable and the Rational**

**§ 2. The Burdens of Judgment**

**§ 3. Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines**

**§ 4. The Publicity Condition: Its Three Levels**

**§ 5. Rational Autonomy: Artificial not Political**

**§ 6. Full Autonomy: Political not Ethical**

**§ 7. The Basis of Moral Motivation in the Person**

**§ 8. Moral Psychology: Philosophical not Psychological**

### LECTURE III - Political Constructivism

**§ 1. The Idea of a Constructivist Conception**

**§ 2. Kant's Moral Constructivism**

**§ 3. Justice as Fairness as a Constructivist View**

**§ 4. Role of Conceptions of Society and Person**

**§ 5. Three Conceptions of Objectivity**

**§ 6. Objectivity Independent of the Causal View of Knowledge**

**§ 7. When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking?**

**§ 8: The Scope of Political Constructivism**

## PART TWO - Political Liberalism: Three Main Ideas

### LECTURE IV - The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus

**§ 1. How Is Political Liberalism Possible?**

**§ 2. The Question of Stability**

**§ 3. Three Features of an Overlapping Consensus**

**§ 4. An Overlapping Consensus not Indifferent or Skeptical**

**§ 5. A Political Conception Need not be Comprehensive**

**§ 6. Steps to Constitutional Consensus**

**§ 7. Steps to Overlapping Consensus**

**§ 8. Conception and Doctrines: How Related?**

### LECTURE V - The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good

**§ 1. How a Political Conception Limits Conceptions of the Good**

**§ 2. Goodness as Rationality**

**§ 3. Primary Goods and Interpersonal Comparisons**

**§ 4. Primary Goods as Citizens' Needs**

**§ 5. Permissible Conceptions of the Good and Political Virtues**

**§ 6. Is Justice as Fairness Fair to Conceptions of the Good?**

**§ 7. The Good of Political Society**

**§ 8. That Justice as Fairness is Complete**

### LECTURE VI - The Idea of Public Reason

**§ 1. The Questions and Forums of Public Reason**

**§ 2. Public Reason and the Ideal of Democratic Citizenship**

**§ 3. Nonpublic Reasons**

**§ 4. The Content of Public Reason**

**§ 5. The Idea of Constitutional Essentials**

**§ 6. The Supreme Court as Exemplar of Public Reason**

**§ 7. Apparent Difficulties with Public Reason**

**§ 8. The Limits of Public Reason**

## PART THREE - Institutional Framework

### LECTURE VII - The Basic Structure as Subject

**§ 1. First Subject of Justice**

**§ 2. Unity by Appropriate Sequence**

**§ 3. Libertarianism Has No Special Role for the Basic Structure**

**§ 4. The Importance of Background Justice**

**§ 5. How the Basic Structure Affects Individuals**

**§ 6. Initial Agreement as Hypothetical and Nonhistorical**

**§ 7. Special Features of the Initial Agreement**

**§ 8. The Social Nature of Human Relationships**

**§ 9. Ideal Form for the Basic Structure**

**§ 10. Reply to Hegel's Criticism**

### LECTURE VIII - The Basic Liberties and Their Priority

**§ 1. The Initial Aim of justice as Fairness**

**§ 2. The Special Status of Basic Liberties**

**§ 3. Conceptions of Person and Social Cooperation**

**§ 4. The Original Position**

**§ 5. Priority of Liberties, I: Second Moral Power**

**§ 6. Priority of Liberties, II: First Moral Power**

**§ 7. Basic Liberties not Merely Formal**

**§ 8. A Fully Adequate Scheme of Basic Liberties**

**§ 9. How Liberties Fit into One Coherent Scheme**

**§ 10. Free Political Speech**

**§ 11. The Clear and Present Danger Rule**

**§ 12. Maintaining the Fair Value of Political Liberties**

**§ 13. Liberties Connected with the Second Principle**

**§ 14. The Role of Justice as Fairness**

### LECTURE IX - Reply to Habermas

**§ I. Two Main Differences**

**§ 2. Overlapping Consensus and Justification**

**§ 3. Liberties of the Moderns Versus the Will of the People**

**§ 4. The Roots of the Liberties**

**§ 5. Procedural Versus Substantive Justice**

**§ 6. Conclusion**

## PART FOUR - The Idea of Public Reason Revisited

### Introduction to "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"

### The Idea of Public Reason Revisited: (1997)

**§ 1. The Idea of Public Reason**

**§ 2. The Content of Public Reason**

**§ 3. Religion and Public Reason in Democracy**

**§ 4. The Wide View of Public Political Culture**

**§ 5. On the Family as Part of the Basic Structure**

**§ 6. Questions about Public Reason**

**§ 7. Conclusion**