Cover of the first edition
Cover of the first edition

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982; second edition 1998) is a book about liberalism by the philosopher Michael Sandel.

- Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).

- Michael Sandel

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Cover of the first American edition

A Theory of Justice

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1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society).

1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society).

Cover of the first American edition

Michael Sandel criticized Rawls in Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982), arguing that Rawls encourages people to think about justice while divorced from the values and aspirations that define who they are as persons and that allow people to determine what justice is.

Two-axis political spectrum chart with an economic axis and a socio-cultural axis, and ideologically representative colors

Communitarianism

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Philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

Philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

Two-axis political spectrum chart with an economic axis and a socio-cultural axis, and ideologically representative colors
A variant of the Nolan chart using traditional political color coding (red leftism versus blue rightism) with communitarianism on the top left

Contemporary theoretical communitarianism (Michael J. Sandel, Michael Walzer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor), originating in the 1980s

Michael Sandel – Liberalism and the Limits of Justice