Introduction: John Rawls and the crisis of American liberalism -- Justice as fairness -- The second principle of … justice -- The just and the good -- Political liberalism I : principles -- Political liberalism II : applications -- "The idea …"Schaefer challenges John Rawls's practically sacrosanct status among scholars of political theory, law, and ethics by …

This paper has been inspired by a suggestion made by Margaret Canovan that liberalism should be understood as a … 'project to be realized'. It argues that we should follow Canovan by having an expendet account of what 'liberalism' might be … that focuses on the connection between liberal theory and the practices of liberal agency. In this view liberal theorising …