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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... hold different conceptions of justice can , then , still agree that institutions are just when no arbitrary distinctions are made between persons in the assigning of basic rights and duties and when the rules determine a proper balance ...
... hold for all cases . These principles may not work for the rules and practices of private associations or for those of less comprehensive social groups . They may be irrelevant for the various informal conventions and customs of ...
... hold that these values have to be balanced against each other by intuition : it may say that there are no ... holds that no constructive answer can be given to the problem of assigning weights to competing principles of justice . Here at ...
... hold without exception . We can regard such a ranking as analogous to a sequence of constrained maximum principles . For we can suppose that any principle in the order is to be maximized subject to the condition that the preceding ...
... holds in moral philosophy . There is no reason to assume that our sense of justice can be adequately characterized by familiar common sense precepts , or derived from the more obvious learning principles . A correct account of moral ...