Abbreviations of and Bibliographic Information for Rawls’s Works
- SGEK
“A Study in the Grounds of Ethical Knowledge: Considered with Reference to Judgments on the Moral Worth of Character,” doctoral dissertation submitted to the Princeton University Department of Philosophy, February 1, 1950.
- TJ
A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1971 and 1999.
- PL
Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press. 1993; paperback 1995; expanded edition 2005.
- PLR
Political Liberalism, revised draft. Unpublished, 1998.
- LP
Law of Peoples. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1999.
- CP
Collected Papers, ed. Samuel Freeman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1999.
- LHMP
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Barbara Herman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000.
- LHPP
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, ed. Samuel Freeman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000.
- JF
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, ed. Erin Kelly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2001.
- BI
Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, ed. Thomas Nagel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Three of Rawls’s articles are sometimes cited in their original venues of publication rather than in the versions published in his CP:
“Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory.” The Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 515–72.
“Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 14 (1985): 223–51.
“The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 7(1987): 1–25.
