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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... contract as represented by Locke , Rousseau , and Kant . In this way I hope that the theory can be developed so that it is no longer open to the more obvious objections often thought fatal to it . Moreover , this theory seems to offer ...
... contract . The compact of society is replaced by an initial situation that incorporates certain procedural constraints on arguments designed to lead to an original agreement on principles of justice . I also take up , for purposes of ...
... Contract , and Kant's ethical works beginning with The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals as definitive of the contract tradition . For all of its greatness , Hobbes's Leviathan raises special problems . A general historical ...
... contract . This original position is not , of course , thought of as an actual historical state of affairs , much less as a primitive condition of culture . It is understood as a purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead ...
... contract views , consists of two parts : ( 1 ) an interpretation of the initial situation and of the problem of choice posed there , and ( 2 ) a set of principles which , it is argued , would be agreed to . One may accept the first part ...