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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Rawls and Environmental Justice -- The Joint Enterprise -- Our Short Memories -- Social Justice Matters -- Cultural and Linguistic Diversity -- A Rawlsian Foundation -- Content Overview -- Chapter 1: Welcome to the Anthropocene -- Chapter 2: Fairness: A Magnificent Obsession -- Chapter 3: The Social Contract -- Chapter 4: The Basic Structure and the Principles of Justice
Chapter 5: Political Culture and the Basic Structure -- Chapter 6: The Coercive Role of the Basic Structure -- Chapter 7: Just Savings -- Chapter 8: Ideal Theory -- Chapter 9: 'We Are All in this Together' -- Chapter 10: From Ideal Theory to Practice -- Notes -- References -- 1 Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The Anthropocene -- Why Anthropocene? -- The Challenge -- The Global North and South -- Understanding Science -- Biomes and a Rawlsian Political Philosophy -- A Question of Justice -- An Ontology for the Anthropocene -- Notes -- References -- 2 Fairness: A Magnificent Obsession
Justice and Equality -- Rawlsian Fairness -- Rawls and the Contested Question -- The Four Roles of Political Philosophy -- Reflective Equilibrium -- Fairness and the Anthropocene -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Social Contract -- Game Theory and Social Contracts -- The Original Position -- Justification for Rawls's Theory of Justice -- Public Reason -- Cultural and Linguistic Diversity -- The Social Contract and the Anthropocene -- Notes -- References -- 4 The Basic Structure and the Principles of Justice -- Justice and Institutions -- Global Justice
The Instrumental Role of the Basic Structure -- The Basic Structure -- Notes -- References -- 5 Political Culture and the Basic Structure -- Background Justice -- Culture and Background Justice -- Understanding Normality -- A Global Basic Structure? -- Notes -- Notes -- 6 The Coercive Role of the Basic Structure -- In an Ideal Society Coercion Is Redundant -- Sovereignty and the Basic Structure -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 7 Just Savings -- The Argument -- Rawls's Ontology -- The Need for an Ontological Shift -- Moderate Scarcity
Assumptions Underpinning an Environmental Ontology -- Rawls and Environmental Justice -- Global Resilience -- Notes -- References -- 8 Ideal Theory -- What Is an Ideal Theory? -- Non-ideal Theory -- Partial and Comprehensive Ideal Theories and Idealisation -- Towards a Rawlsian Praxis -- Objection -- Transitions -- Scarcity -- Understanding Ideal Theory: Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 9 'We Are All in this Together' -- Return to Easter Island -- Work in a Rawlsian World -- The Economics of Justice -- A POD -- Notes -- References -- 10 From Ideal Theory to Practice
