The law of peoples
by John Rawls · first published 1999
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"This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection by John Rawls on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times."--BOOK JACKET.
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I've never read A Theory of Justice, but a few years ago I read a short book by Rawls called The Law of Peoples, which is basically an attempt to apply his theory to international relations, and he suggests that if one country is governed by a state that clearly violates the international consensus of how to treat…
on “John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (2020)” ↗…a country" so he failed to recognize that the true application of veil of ignorance should push us towards open borders and more aid to developing nations. Rawls discussed this in the later work "The Law of Peoples".
on “John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (2020)” ↗