On Political Liberalism and Justice as Equity

Abstract

The author focuses on the fundamental lines of his interpretation of political liberalism and its relation to the idea of justice as fairness. In Sections 1-7, the liberal theory of the just society is delineated in relation to the historical, academic and political context in which the ideas of political liberalism were formulated. In Sections 8-10, the author introduces the question of global justice, considered as the main conundrum of contemporary political philosophy.