An edition of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas
(1991)
The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism
Kant, Rawls, and Habermas
by Kenneth Baynes
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This book is a comparative study of Kant, Rawls, and Habermas and a critical survey of recent theories of justice. It defends the thesis that the normative ground or basis of social criticism is found in a concept of the person as a free and equal moral being.
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Page xi
Introduction
Page 1
1.
Kant’s Theory of Justice
Page 11
I.
Introduction
II.
Justice and Morality on Kant
III.
Property Rights and the Social Contract
IV.
Conclusion: Problems and Prospects
2.
Justice as Fairness: Rawls’s Kantian Interpretation
Page 49
I.
Introduction
II.
The Original Position as a "Prodecural Representation" of the Categorical Imperative
III.
Other Kantian Aspects of Rawls’s Theory of Justice
IV.
Reflective Equilibrium and the Problem of Justification
3.
Communicative Action and Formal Pragmatics: Habermas’s Defense of a Discourse Ethics
Page 77
I.
Introduction
II.
Communicative Action and Moral Theory
III.
Theories of Meaning and Formal Pragmatics
IV.
The Idea and Jusitification of a Discourse Ethics
4.
The Concept of the Person, Moral Autonomy, and Generalizable Interests
Page 123
I.
Introduction
II.
Rawls’s Model-Conception of the Person
III.
Moral Sutonomy as Communicative Competence
IV.
Primary Goods and Generalizable Interests
5.
From Distributive Justice to Normative Social Criticism
Page 153
I.
Rawls’s Two Principles of Justice
II.
The Basic Structure and Normative Social Criticism
III.
Justice, Democratic Participation, and the Public Sphere
IV.
Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere
Notes
Page 183
Bibliography
Page 227
Index
Page 237
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987.
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