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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... limits the pursuit of other ends . One may think of a public conception of justice as constituting the fundamental charter of a well - ordered human association . Existing societies are of course seldom well - ordered in this sense ...
... limits on fair terms of social cooperation . One way to look at the idea of the original position , therefore , is to see it as an expository device which sums up the meaning of these conditions and helps us to extract their ...
... Limits of Utilitarianism ( Oxford , The Clarendon Press , 1965 ) ; and Allan Gibbard , “ Utilitarianisms and Coordination " ( dissertation , Harvard University , 1971 ) . The problems raised by these works , as important as they are , I ...
... limits on which satisfactions have value ; they impose restrictions on what are reasonable conceptions of one's good . In drawing up plans and in deciding on aspirations men are to take these constraints into account . Hence in justice ...
... limits of this kind , namely , those that are required if its first principles are to be satisfied given the circumstances . Utilitarianism excludes those desires and propensities which if encouraged or permitted would , in view of the ...