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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... judgments over a wide range of questions . Therefore the topics of these chapters need to be taken up , and the conclusions reached modify in turn the view proposed . But in this regard the reader is more free to follow his preferences ...
... judgments , and imputations . We also call the attitudes and dispositions of persons , and persons themselves , just and unjust . Our topic , however , is that of social justice . For us the primary subject of justice is the basic ...
... judgments about the basic structure of society which we now make intuitively and in which we have the greatest confidence ; or whether , in cases where our present judgments are in doubt and given with hesitation , these principles ...
... judgments , for even the judgments we take provisionally as fixed points are liable to revision . By going back and forth , sometimes altering the conditions of the contractual circumstances , at others withdrawing our judgments and ...
... judgments of justice . In arriving at the favored interpretation of the initial situation there is no point at which an appeal is made to self - evidence in the traditional sense either of general conceptions or particular convictions ...