Political Liberalism : Expanded Edition

Introduction; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Part 1: Political Liberalisim: Basic Elements; Lecture I: Fundmental Ideas; 1. Addressing Two Fundamental Questions; 2. The Idea of a Polical Conception of Justice; 3. The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation; 4. The Idea of a Original Position; 5. The Polical 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 Judgement3. 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 a Contructivist View; 4. Role of Conceptions of Society and Person; 5. Three Conceptions of Objectivity; 6. Objectivity Indpendent of the Casual View of Knowledge. 7. When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking?8. The Scope of Polical Constructivism; Part 2: Polical Liberalism: Three Main Ideas; Lecture IV: The Idea of 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 Polical 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 Political Conception Limits Conceptions of the Good2. 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 Essentials6. The Supreme Court as Exemplar of Public Reason; 7. Apparent Difficulties with Public Reason; 8. The Limits of Public Reason; Part 3: Institutional Framework; Lecture VII: The Basic Structure as Subject1; 1. First Subject of Justice; 2. Unity by Appropriate Sequence; 3. Libertarianism Has No Special Role for the Basic Structure; 4. The Imortance of Backround Justice; 5. How the Basic Structure Affects Individuals; 6. Initial Agreement as Hypothetical and Nonhistorical; 7. Special Features of the Initial Agreement