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Spring 2012
The purpose of this work was to develop a greater understanding of Rawls’s liberal-egalitarianism within the context of political participation. In A Theory of Justice, his first comprehensive statement of his theory of justice, Rawls introduced the idea of fair opportunity, which holds all...
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Reading Rawls’s Lectures on Hobbes’s Leviathan: Pluralism, Stability, and Political Consensus
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This work examines Rawls’s lectures on Hobbes, which are delivered at a time when Rawls is developing his political liberalism. It especially seeks to question the foundations of Rawls’s interpretation of Hobbes’s Leviathan as presenting a core “political” doctrine based around prudential egoism....
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Fall 2012
In this essay, I present a reading of one of Bernard Williams's late political essays, "Realism and Moralism in Political Theory." Using the work of John Rawls as a foil, I articulate what I take to be distinctive in Williams's approach to political realism, focusing on his account of...