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Christian Justice and Public Policy. By Duncan B. Forrester. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press1997. Pp. xiv, 274. $74.95. ISBN: 0-521-55431-4.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2015
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1. On page 131, Professor Forrester quotes me as “suggesting that Rawls's account of justice cannot be construed as ‘anything other than immoral self-interest (prudence in the narrow sense.)’” The phrase I used in To Bedlam and Part Way Back: John Rawls and Christian Justice, 8 Faith and Philosophy 431 (1992)Google Scholar was, in fact, “anything other than amoral self-interest.” This is clearly a typo, but it makes me sound much more critical of Rawls than I am. I do contend that his “justice as fairness” tends to subvert moral motivation over time, but to call it “immoral” rather than “amoral” is too harsh.
2. Shakespeare, William, The Merchant of Venice 74 (Thurber, Samuel Jr., ed, Allyn & Bacon 1958)Google Scholar.
3. Shakespeare, supra n. 3, at 74.