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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... allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of 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 ...
... allows different persons to arrive at a different balance of principles . Nevertheless such an intuitionist conception , if it were to fit our considered judgments on reflection , would be by no means without importance . At least it ...
... allowing for the smoothing out of certain irregularities ; in the second case a person's sense of justice may or may not undergo a radical shift . Clearly it is the second kind of reflective equilibrium that one is concerned with in ...
... allow for variations ) . These rules enumerate certain forms of action ranging from holding a session of parliament to taking a vote on a bill to raising a point of order . Various kinds of general norms are organized into a coherent ...
... allows and the forms of behavior which it tends to encourage . Ideally the rules should be set up so that men are led by their predominant interests to act in ways which further socially desirable ends . The conduct of individuals ...