A Theory of Justice: Original EditionHarvard University Press, 31. mar. 2005 - 624 sider John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. |
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... advantages enjoyed by many . Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled ; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests . The only ...
... advantages of social life . Men can agree to this description of just institutions since the notions of an arbitrary distinction and of a proper balance , which are included in the concept of justice , are left open for each to ...
... advantages is appropriate . Clearly this distinction between the concept and the various conceptions of justice settles no important questions . It simply helps to identify the role of the principles of social justice . Some measure of ...
... advantages from social cooperation . By major institutions I understand the political constitution and the principal economic and social arrangements . Thus the legal protection of freedom of thought and liberty of conscience ...
... advantages . A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role . Now this approach may not seem to tally ... advantage for oneself by seizing what belongs to another , his property , his reward , his office , and the like , or by ...