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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... desire to act justly . Aristotle's definition clearly presupposes , however , an account of what properly belongs to a person and of what is due to him . Now such entitlements are , I believe , very often derived from social ...
... desires of the many individuals who belong to it . Since the principle for an individual is to advance as far as possible his own welfare , his own system of desires , the principle ... desire arrived at from 23 5. Classical Utilitarianism.
Original Edition John Rawls. greatest extent the comprehensive system of desire arrived at from the desires of its members . Just as an individual balances present and future gains against present and future losses , so a society may ...
... desire . This accords with the view in all essentials and provides , I believe , a fair interpretation of it . The ... desires of individuals . It is impossible to deny the initial plausibility 25 5. Classical Utilitarianism.
... desires of others as if these desires were his own . In this way he ascertains the intensity of these desires and assigns them their appropriate weight in the one system of desire the satisfaction of which the ideal legislator then ...