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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... certain ad hoc ways by intuitionistic constraints . Such a view is not irrational ; and there is no assurance that we can do better . But this is no reason not to try . What I have attempted to do is to generalize and carry to a higher ...
... certain measure of agreement on what is just and unjust , it is clearly more difficult for individuals to coordinate their plans efficiently in order to insure that mutually beneficial arrangements are maintained . Distrust and ...
... certain level of abstraction . In particular , the content of the relevant agreement is not to enter a given society or to adopt a given form of government , but to accept certain moral principles . Moreover , the undertakings referred ...
... certain conditions . To justify a particular description of the initial situation one shows that it incorporates these commonly shared presumptions . One argues from widely accepted but weak premises to more specific conclusions . Each ...
... certain procedure , namely , by arguing for principles of justice in accordance with these restrictions . It seems reasonable to suppose that the parties in the original position are equal . That is , all have the same rights in the ...